Cedric L Joseph

Anglo-American Diplomacy And The Reopening Of The Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about Anglo-American involvement in the reopening of the border controversy between Guyana, formerly British Guiana, and Venezuela. The dispute over the border commenced in the mid-nineteenth century when Venezuela asserted a claim to some two-thirds of the territory of the British colony.

Great Britain's refusal to refer the delimitation of the border to arbitration developed into a major crisis in Anglo-American affairs in 1895. The United States had assessed the issue as a major challenge to the Monroe Doctrine and it would provoke the two English-speaking powers close to military conflict.

In 1899, an arbitral tribunal met in Paris and agreed unanimously on the boundary line between British Guiana and Venezuela. That boundary line has been universally accepted.

In 1962 at the height of the Cold War, Venezuela repudiated the award claiming that it was a "political deal". Fidel Castro had assumed power in Cuba and there were anxieties about the spread of Communism in the Americas, particularly in British Guiana during the pre-independence premiership of Marxist oriented Cheddi Jagan.

Cedric Joseph examines the primary documents relating to the diplomacy of the administrations of John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. He explores their special relationships, sympathies and acute predisposition towards Venezuela that permitted the reopening of the boundary issue and ultimately sacrificed the territorial integrity of Guyana.

He also establishes the collusion between Suriname's claim to territory in Guyana and the Venezuelan claim.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781426936487
• Artikelnr.: 51615031

Autorenporträt

Cedric Joseph is a historian and a retired career Foreign Service Officer. He was born in Guyana and was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He has been a Lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Later he joined the Ministry of External Affairs, Guyana, and has served in the Guyana diplomatic service in the missions in Jamaica, Washington, DC; and as Deputy Permanent Representative in the Permanent Mission of Guyana to the United Nations; as High Commissioner to Zambia with accreditation to a number of states in Southern Africa; and as High Commissioner to the Court of St James's, accredited to France, the Netherlands and the former Yugoslavia. He was also the Representative of Guyana to UNESCO.

During 1983-1986, he was Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa in London, and in 1985-1986, he also served as Chairman of the Commonwealth Sugar Committee also in London.

He was later appointed Head, Presidential Secretariat and Secretary to the Cabinet in February 1986 and retired from the Public Service in August 1991. He returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Senior Ambassador until December 1994.

From 1991-1994, he was a Member of the Board of the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

He has written on domestic and regional affairs including the Guyana-Venezuela boundary controversy and on the Caribbean Community