Land-Locked States of Africa and Asia

by Hodder, Dick; Lloyd, Sarah J.; McLachlan, Keith S.

• ISBN13: 9780714643717
• ISBN10: 0714643718
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since 1991 more than a dozen new land-locked states have emerged to be confronted with the established geostrategic problems of access and communications. For some, establishing transit routes is a crucial question for the exploitation of their energy resources. In many developing countries the condition of land-lockedness has often been an intrinsic factor in their poor economic performance. With the end of the Cold War and subsequent cuts in political and economic support, new alliances are being forged between African and Asian land-locked states and their neighbours. Contributors represent a balance between regional specialists and those few authorities who have written extensively on the geopolitical implications of land-lockedness. A number of case studies in this book focus on the historical development of trade routes, transportation systems and boundaries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Experience of Land-lockedness in Africa	p. 12
Chad: Power Vacuum or Geopolitical Focus	p. 25
Land-locked Niger and its Alternative Seaport Access	p. 40
Land-lockedness and Dependency on Coastal Countries: The Case of Ethiopia	p. 56
African Land and Access Corridors	p. 69
Afghanistan: the Geopolitics of a Buffer State	p. 82
Land-locked Central Asia: Implications for the Future	p. 97
Mongolia: Looking to the Sea	p. 134
Land-locked Laos: Dilemmas of Development at the Edge of the World	p. 153
Transit Arrangements between Nepal and India: A Study in International Law	p. 175
Resolving the Problems of Land-lockedness	p. 197
Conclusions	p. 209
Index	p. 221
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