ABSTRACT

Since 1991 more than a dozen new land-locked states have emerged to be confronted with the geostrategic problems of access and communications. Contributors present the implications of land-lockedness and the historical development of trade routes.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|15 pages

Chad

Power Vacuum or Geopolitical Focus

chapter 4|13 pages

Land-lockedness and Dependency on Coastal Countries

The Case of Ethiopia

chapter 6|15 pages

Afghanistan

The Geopolitics of a Buffer State

chapter 7|37 pages

Land-locked Central Asia

Implications for the Future

chapter 8|19 pages

Mongolia

Looking to the Sea

chapter 9|22 pages

Land-locked Laos

Dilemmas of Development at the Edge of the World

chapter 10|22 pages

Transit Arrangements between Nepal and India

A Study in International Law

chapter 12|7 pages

Conclusions