Kuwait and Iraq : historical claims and territorial disputes / Richard Schofield.

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1. The international status of Kuwait in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : 1.1 Until 1871 : The evidence for Kuwaiti independence - 1.2 1871-1896 : Kuwait and the Ottoman Empire - 1.3 1896–1901 : The rise of Shaikh Mubarak - 1.4 Concluding remarks -- 2. The creation of a territorially-defined Kuwait, 1902-1913 : 2.1 1902-1907 : Territorial claims from the Khor Zubair south to Bubiyan Island : the 'no-mans land' of the north-west Persian Gulf - 2.2 1908–1910 : Initial attempts to define territorial limits for Kuwait, the ownership of Warba Island, and the Persian Gulf railway - 2.3 1911-1913: Negotiations towards the Anglo-Ottoman settlement - 2.4 Concluding remarks -- 3. The emergence of Kuwait within a territorially defined system of states in northern Arabia, 1914-1932 : 3.1 1914–1919 : Britain's wartime pledges, and Saudi absorption of territory to the south of Kuwait Bay - 3.2 1918–1925 : The postwar settlement of Turkey and Mesopotamia as it affected Kuwait - 3.3 1922 : Setting north-eastern limits to the emerging Saudi state : the Treaty of Muhammara and the Uqair Protocol - 3.4 1923 : Confirmation of the ‘green’ line as the Kuwait-Iraq boundary - 3.5 1928–1932 : Developments preceding Iraqi independence - 3.6 Concluding remarks -- 4. The development of the territorial disputes, 1933-1957 : 4.1 1933–1937 : Smuggling, and the shortcomings of the 1932 delimitation - 4.2 1933–1939 : Iraqi propaganda, the Majlis movement in Kuwait, and the Iraqi claims of September 1938 - 4.3 1938–1941 : Iraq's campaign for a new port on the Persian Gulf, and further British proposals on boundary demarcation - 4.4 1941–1945 : The allied port at Umm Qasr, and problems in Britain on agreeing the eastern terminus of the northern boundary on the Khor Zubair - 4.5 1946–1951 : Demarcation proposals and changes in the border landscape - 4.6 1952–1957 : Proposals to trade fresh water for territory - 4.7 Concluding remarks -- 5. From the fall of the Iraqi monarchy to the invasion of Kuwait : 1958-1990 : 5.1 1958-1961 : Qasim's revolution, Kuwaiti independence, and the 196l crisis - 5.2 1963 : Iraq's renewed acceptance of Kuwait and its boundaries -5.3 1965–1972 : The Joint Border Commission, renewed Iraqi claims to Warba and Bubiyan, and deteriorating relations with Iran - 5.4 1973–1979 : The al-Samta police post incident, and developments regarding warba and Bubiyan - 5.5 1980-1988 : The Kuwait-Iraq boundary during the Iran-Iraq war - 5.6 1988–1990 : The Kuwait-Iraq border question after the Iran-Iraq ceasefire - 5.7 Concluding remarks -- 6. From the prelude to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to withdrawal : May 1990 - March 1991 : 6.1 April-August 1990 : The Shatt al-Arab as a contributory factor in the crisis - 6.2 May-August 1990 : Warba, Bubiyan and the borders question - 6.3 July-August 1990 : The failure of the Jedda Summit - 6.4 August 1990 : The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - 6.5 August 1990 - March 1991: From the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait to withdrawal - 6.6 Concluding remarks -- 7. The United Nations and its ' final' settlement of the Kuwait-Iraq boundary, 1991-1993 : 7.1 April-May 1991 : The border in the UN settlement of the Kuwait crisis - 7.2 April-August 1991 : UNIKOM and incidents in the border zone - 7.3 February-March 1992 : The ' northward migration' of Kuwait's international borders with Iraq - 7.4 April-June 1992 : The land boundary demarcation ruling and reactions to it - 7.5 July-August 1992 : The UN welcomes the UNIKBDC verdict on the land boundary - 7.6 July-August 1992 : Resurrection of the Iraqi claim to the entirety of Kuwait on the second anniversary of the invasion of the emirate - 7.7 October-December 1992 : The demarcation of the Kuwait-Iraq land border, the resignation of UNIKBDC chairman and delays in announcing a water boundary for the Khor Abdullah - 7.8 January-February 1993 : Border incidents, the withdrawal of Iraqi police posts from Kuwaiti territory and the expansion of UNIKOM's terms of reference to actively resist serious border infiltrations - 7.9 February-June 1993 : Border defences, ' returned' oil wells and compensation for displaced or stranded Iraqis - 7.10 March 1993 : A median line for the Khor Abdullah - 7.11 May-June 1993 : UNIKBDC's nomination of coordinates to constitute the ' final' delineation of the demarcated Kuwait-Iraq boundary - 7.12 Concluding remarks -- Annexes : 1. Secret bond concluded between the British Government and the Ruler of Kuwait, 23 January 1899 - 2. Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 29 July 1913 : part five relating to Kuwait - 3. Geographic coordinates nominated by UNIKBDC to constitute the final delimitation of the Kuwait-Iraq boundary, May 1993.