The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay available in Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0313377820
- ISBN-13:
- 9780313377822
- Pub. Date:
- 05/14/2009
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10:
- 0313377820
- ISBN-13:
- 9780313377822
- Pub. Date:
- 05/14/2009
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic
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The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay provides an overview of territorial leasing between states and shows how it challenges, compromises, and complicates established notions of sovereignty and jurisdiction. Strauss unfolds the history of the Guantanamo Bay, recounting how the U.S. has deviated widely from the original terms of the lease yet never been legally challenged by Cuba, owing to the strong state-weak state dynamics. The lease is a hodge-podge of three U.S.-Cuba agreements full of discrepancies and uncorrected errors. Cuba's failure to cash the annual rent checks of the U.S. has legal implications not only for the future of Guantanamo Bay but of the Westphalian system of states. Compiled for the first time in one place are the verbatim texts of all the key documents relevant to the Guantanamo Bay lease-including treaties and other agreements, a previously unpublished U.N. legal assessment, and once-classified government correspondence.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780313377822 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 05/14/2009 |
Series: | Praeger Security International |
Pages: | 332 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
PrefaceIntroduction
1 Sovereign States and Their Territory
2 The Nature of Territorial Leases
3 The Guantanamo Bay Lease
4 Objectives of the Lease
5 Jurisdiction at Guantanamo Bay
6 Duration of the Lease
7 The Annual Rent Payments
8 Recent and Current Issues
9 The Lease in U.S.-Cuban Relations
10 The Future of the Guantanamo Bay Lease
11 The Global Impact of the Lease
APPENDICES
Appendix 1. Treaty of Paris (1898)
Appendix 2. The Platt Amendment (1901)
Appendix 3. Lease Agreement, First Part (1903)
Appendix 4. Treaty of Relations (1903)
Appendix 5. Lease Agreement, Second Part (1903)
Appendix 6. Guantanamo Bay Expansion Treaty (1912)
Appendix 7. Treaty of Relations (1934)
Appendix 8. U.S. Legal Arguments (1962)
Appendix 9. UN Assessment of Legal Arguments (1962)
Appendix 10. U.S. Rent Payment Instructions (1973, 1974)
Appendix 11. Libertad (Helms-Burton) Act (1996)
Appendix 12. U.S. Rent Payment Documents (2006)
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Cases
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"Strauss has composed the most comprehensive analysis to date of the legal status of Guantanamo Bay and its detention centers. More than just a history, The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay masterfully untangles the threads of law, politics and power that have made Guantanamo one of the strangest parcels of land on earth. For those who are interested in what goes on at Guantanamo and why, the book is indispensable."
"Strauss has composed the most comprehensive analysis to date of the legal status of Guantanamo Bay and its detention centers. More than just a history, The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay masterfully untangles the threads of law, politics and power that have made Guantanamo one of the strangest parcels of land on earth. For those who are interested in what goes on at Guantanamo and why, the book is indispensable."
"Strauss has composed the most comprehensive analysis to date of the legal status of Guantanamo Bay and its detention centers. More than just a history, The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay masterfully untangles the threads of law, politics and power that have made Guantanamo one of the strangest parcels of land on earth. For those who are interested in what goes on at Guantanamo and why, the book is indispensable."