The Cameroon Nigeria Border Dispute : Management and Resolution, 1981-2011.
At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of uti possedetis juris by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these anomalies. But such efforts were later...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Langaa RPCIG
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1
- Stakes and Causes of the Border Dispute; Historico-Diplomatic Causes; Constant boundary changes between colonial masters; Non application of bilateral border agreements; Security and Strategic Considerations; Security imperatives and geostrategic importance of some border areas; The quest for national cohesion; Socio-Economic Considerations; Population movements across the frontier; Economic needs of Nigeria and Cameroon.
- Chapter 2
- Bilateral Management of the Border Dispute, 1981-2002The Role of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Boundary Comission, 1991-93; Promotion of trans-frontier cooperation; Promotion of bilateral relations and sub-regional integration; The Yola Seminar Workshop, May 25
- 29, 1992; Objectives; Identified problems and recommended solutions; The Role of the Cameroon-Nigeria Joint Commission, 1987-2002; Promotion of trnas-frontier cooperation; Promotion of bilateral relations; High-Level Talks and Declarations on the Border Issue, 1981-2002.
- Reconciliation process following the May 16, 1981 border incidentTalks and Declarations before Nigerian invasion of Bakassi in 1994; Diplomatic offensives following Bigerian invasion of Bakassi; Bilateral Cooperation at the time of Crisis; Chapter 3
- Multilateral Management of the Border Dispute, 1981-2002; The Role of the Lake Chad Basin Commission; The Role of the Organization of African Unity; The Role of the United Nations Organization; The Role of the European Union; The Role of the Customs and Economic Union of Central African States.
- The Mediation and Conciliation Efforts of Togo and FranceThe mediation efforts of Togo; The French conciliation efforts; Chapter 4
- The Settlement of the Dispute through Adjudication by the International Court of Justice, 1994-2002; Cameroon's Suit and Nigeria's Preliminary Objections; Cameroon's introductory suit; Nigeria's preliminary objections and Court's verdict, June 1998; The Stance of Cameroon and Nigeria during the Oral Pleadings; Dispute in the Lake Chad region up to Mount Kombon; Dispute along the Land Boundary area from Mount Kombon through pillar 64 to the sea.
- Dispute over the Bakassi PeninsulaDispute over the Maritime Boundary and Equatorial Guinea's intervention; Nigeria's international liability; The Verdict, October 10, 2002; Delimitation of the boundary; Lake Chad region; Land boundary from the vicinity of lake Chad to astride the Bakassi Peninsula; Bakassi Peninsula; Maritime Boundary; The delimited Sector; Undelimited sector; Withdrawal of Administration, Armed Forces and Police; Chapter 5
- The Process of the Implementation of the International Court of Justice Verdict, 2002-2011; Complementing Legality with UN Brokered Diplomacy.