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An account of how the frontier between Iraq and Kuwait - the key cause of the Gulf war - was decided. In the 19th century Britain became aware of Kuwait's strategic importance and used both diplomacy and gunboats to help its ruler ward off Ottoman territorial claims.
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During the 1991 Gulf War, pundits and experts scrambled unsuccessfully to explain Iraq's "claim" to Kuwait. In a lucid and measured account of a complex historical and geographic drama that culminated in Operation Desert Storm, David Finnie elucidates the long Kuwaiti-Iraqi border dispute and lays Saddam Hussein's dubious claim to rest. He also raises larger questions about European colonialism and about the creation of new nation-states in the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finnie vividly portrays how arbitrary the drawing of frontiers can be, and how they come to serve internal, regional, and international rivalries and ambitions. This history begins in the eighteenth century, when Kuwait was first settled by nomads from the Arabian desert. Finnie describes the country's growing prosperity under a merchant oligarchy, then shows how the Kuwaitis, seeking British protection from the sprawling Ottoman Empire, came to serve England's imperial strategy. He details the ways in which Britain parlayed its mandatory control of Iraq and its protectorate over Kuwait to curb the larger nation's ambitions and to ensure Kuwait's independence under British auspices. A fresh look at British diplomatic documents reveals how Whitehall covered its tracks, heading off the Iraqis, obfuscating League of Nations proceedings, and confounding scholars and researchers down to the present day. Pursuing his story through Britain's withdrawal from the Persian Gulf and Iraq's 1963 recognition of Kuwait's boundaries, Finnie examines the United Nations' postwar measures to secure the frontier in the face of Iraq's continuing pressure for better access to Gulf waters.
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- PublisherI.B. Tauris
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1850435707
- ISBN 13 9781850435709
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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Shifting Lines in The Sand. Kuwait's Elusive Frontier with Iraq.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. viii, [3], 221 pp., 3 maps, cloth in d/w, some pencil annotations and underlining, otherwise in good condition, notes, biblio, index. A fresh look at British diplomatic documents reveals how Whitehall covered its track, heading off the Iraqis, obfuscating League of Nations proceedings and confounding scholars and researches down to the present day. Pursuing his story through Britain?s withdrawal from the Persian Gulf and Iraq?s 1963 recognition of Kuwait?s boundaries, the author examines the United Nations? post-war measures to secure the frontier in the face of Iraq?s continuing pressure for better access to Gulf water. The contents are: 1.Kuwait: The beginnings. 2. Britain, Kuwait, and the Turks, 1899-1914. 3. Britain Takes Charge in Iraq and Kuwait. 4. First Lines in the Sand, 1923. 5. Invisible Lines at Geneva, 1932. 6. Britain and Kuwait between the Wars. 7. Iraq on Its Own. 8. The Undemarcated Boundary, 1938-1958. 9. Dress Rehearsal for Desert Storm, 1961. 10. Reconciliation, Encroachment, and the First Gulf War, 1963-l988. 11. Saddam Hussein and the UN: Clear Lines in the Sand? #9307. Seller Inventory # 014009
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