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A Case Ill Suited For Judgment: Constructing ‘A Sovereign Access To The Sea’ In The Atacama Desert, Christopher R. Rossi Feb 2017

A Case Ill Suited For Judgment: Constructing ‘A Sovereign Access To The Sea’ In The Atacama Desert, Christopher R. Rossi

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

In 2015, the International Court of Justice ruled that Bolivia’s claim against Chile could proceed to the merit stage, setting up this Article’s discussion of perhaps the most intractable border dispute in South American history – Bolivia’s attempt to reclaim from Chile a ‘sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean’. This Article investigates the international law and deeply commingled regional history pertaining to the Atacama Desert region, the hyperarid yet resource-rich region through which Bolivia seeks to secure its long-lost access to the sea. Investigating the factual circumstances (effectivités), the post-colonial international legal principle of uti possidetis, territorial temptations arising …


Transit Problems Of Three Asian Land-Locked Countries: Afghanistan, Nepal And Laos, Martin Ira Glassner Jan 1983

Transit Problems Of Three Asian Land-Locked Countries: Afghanistan, Nepal And Laos, Martin Ira Glassner

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.


Access Of Land-Locked States To And From The Sea, Milenko Milic Jan 1981

Access Of Land-Locked States To And From The Sea, Milenko Milic

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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