A line in the sea
Subtitle: the Qatar versus Bahrain border dispute in the World Court
By: By Jawad Salim Al-Arayed.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Qatar -- Boundaries -- Bahrain; Bahrain -- Boundaries -- Qatar
Other titles: Qatar versus Bahrain border dispute in the World Court.
Description: "A Line in the Sea offers an insight into the continuing turmoil in the Arabian Gulf region. The adjudication of the border dispute between the nations of Qatar and Bahrain before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) began in 1991 and ended with the Court's final decision on 16 March 2001. But the dispute had simmered - and sometimes boiled over - for more than fifty years before that. Much of the dispute was played out against the backdrop of the first discoveries of oil in the Arabian Gulf, and the rush by oil companies, foreign powers, and the leaders of the Gulf nations to find and exploit those lucrative assets. The roots of the dispute lie tangled within the history of British and Ottoman Empire involvements in the Arabian Gulf, and the political destinies of the emerging Gulf states."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early history in the lower Arabian Gulf; title: Advent of western powers in the Gulf; title: Al Khalifa rule of Bahrain, Hasa, and Qatar Peninsula (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries); title: Life on the Qatar Peninsula; title: Piracy, the British, and Bahrain's emergence as a political entity; title: Ottoman presence and Qatar's emergence as a separate entity; title: Qatar's version of historical context; title: Zubarah; title: Founding and zenith of Zubarah; title: The Naim : Bahrain's people in Qatar Peninsula; title: Ottoman attempts to take control of Zubarah; title: Zubarah in the early twentieth century; title: Qatar captures Zubarah-July 1937; title: Qatar's version of events in Zubarah; title: The Hawar islands; title: Dowasir tribe and occupation; title: Bahrain Authority as manifested in Hawar; title: British and Ottoman recognition of Bahrain's Authority over the Hawars; title: Oil concessions in the Hawars; title: British adjudication of sovereignty; title: Qatar's version of the Hawar situation; title: Resolution of the dispute; title: Steps toward resolution; title: The forged documents.