Buffer States in World Politics (Hardcover, 1)

Preface -- Introduction -- Review and Theory -- Buffer States: A Geographer's Perspective -- Buffer States: The Issue of Sovereignty -- Southern Africa: Buffer States without a Conventional Buffer System -- Buffer Systems of Middle America -- Region and Country Case Studies -- Eastern Europe: The Buffer Effect of a Cordon Sanitaire* -- The Albanian Lands: Continuity and Change in a Buffer Region -- The Geo-Political Demise of Lebanon: Consequences of a Political and Military Buffer -- Asia's Pivotal Buffer States -- The History of Afghanistan as a Buffer State -- Korea, a Buffer State -- Uruguay: The Quintessential Buffer State -- Buffer States: Outlining and Expanding Existing Theory