Buffer States In World Politics

Joseph S. Tulchin is director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

• Introduction Part 1: Review and Theory 1. Buffer States: A Geographer's Perspective 2. Buffer States: The Issue of Sovereignty 3. Southern Africa: Buffer States Without a Conventional Buffer System 4. Buffer Systems of Middle America Part 2: Region and Country Case Studies 5. Eastern Europe: The Buffer Effect of a Cordon Sanitaire 6. The Albanian Lands: Continuity and Change in a Buffer Region 7. The Gee-Political Demise of Lebanon: Consequences of a Political and Military Buffer 8. Asia's Pivotal Buffer States 9. The History of Afghanistan as a Buffer State 10. Korea, A Buffer State 11. Uruguay: The Quintessential Buffer State 12. Buffer States: Outlining and Expanding Existing Theory