Political Frontiers Boundaries

Part 1 Introduction: land boundaries; maritime boundaries; a comparison of boundaries on land and sea; boundaries in the air; references frontiers; settlement frontiers; political frontiers; frontiers in the Niger-Beune area. Part 2 The evolution of boundaries: the onset and progress of boundary negotiations; aspects of boundary evolution; research on the evolution of boundaries; evolution in definition; evolution in position; evolution in state functions; evolution of the boundary between Mexico and the United States of America since 1847. Part 3 International boundary disputes: aspects of boundary disputes; types of boundary disputes; territorial boundary disputes; positional boundary disputes; functional boundary disputes; resource development disputes; the role of maps in boundary disputes. Part 4 Maritime boundaries: the origin of national maritime claims; national and international maritime zones; the definition of the baseline; the outer edge of the continental margin; international maritime boundaries. Part 5 Border landscapes: aspects of border landscapes; boundaries as features of the landscape; contrasting landscapes on opposite sides of the boundary; the attitudes of border dwellers; borders and national policies. Part 6 Europe: the distinctive nature of boundary evolution in Europe; the congress of Vienna 1815; the congress of Berlin 1878; the Treaty of Versailles 1919; boundary evolution after 1945; the Danish-German boundary as an example of boundary evolution in Europe. Part 7 The Americas: North America; Central and South America; contemporary boundary disputes. Part 8 Asia: the Russian sector from Vladivostok to Afghanistan; the British sector from Afghanistan to Thailand; the French sector between the Gulfs of Tongking and Thailand; the Japanese sector in the Korean peninsula. Part 9 Africa: the evolution of Africa's boundaries; African boundary problems in the 1980s. Part 10 The Middle East: boundary evolution in the northern region; boundary evolution in the southern region. Part 11 Australia, Indonesia and the islands of the South Pacific Ocean: the boundary on New Guinea; the boundaries of Timor; the boundaries on Borneo; boundaries in the sea; present territorial problems. Part 12 Antarctica: British claims; New Zealand's claim; Australian and French claims; Norway's claim; claims of Chile and Argentina; international boundaries and the Antarctic Treaty.