Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

Enter Uti Possidetis Juris: A Short Modern History -- Uti Possidetis: Origins and Development of the Effectivités -- The Problem of Effective Possession and the Arctic -- Analogous Recourse to Uti Possidetis to Avoid Non Liquet -- Uti Possidetis and the Northern Sea Route -- Conclusion -- 4 Terra Nullius and the "Unique" International Problem of Svalbard -- Increasing Tensions over Resources and the Dynamic Interpretation of the Svalbard Treaty -- Signs of Cooperation -- A Dramatic Deterioration -- Coordinated Opposition to Norway -- Origins of the Current Dispute -- The Meaning of Full and Absolute Sovereignty -- The Poverty of Competing Historical Narratives -- The Proto-Commons Agreement of 1872 -- A Different Kind of No-Man's-Land -- The Historical Difficulty with Spitsbergen's Common Administration: Contested Claims -- The Problematic Rise of the Term Terra Nullius -- Robert Lansing's View -- Guano -- The Condominium Discussions of 1910, 1912, and 1914 -- The Paris Peace Conference -- Conclusion -- 5 Problems of Governance: The Arctic and the Club Within the Club -- The Arctic 5: A Niche Governance Association? -- The Arctic Council Club -- Dueling Arctic Fora? -- The Global Arctic -- Gaps in Governance -- The Function of Soft Law -- The Creeping Coastal State Agenda -- 6 Sharing Sovereignty: Jura Novit Curia? and the Gulf of Fonseca -- Condominia in International Law -- The Historical Setting -- Pre-Independence: 1522-1821 -- Post-Independence: 1821-1917 -- Condominium and Outside Interests -- Condominium and Harmony of Interests -- The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty and Its Aftermath -- The 1917 Decision of the CACJ and Its Aftermath -- Conclusions -- 7 Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a Sovereign Access to the Sea -- A Duty to Negotiate What? Judge Owada's Question -- Chile's View -- Bolivia's View -- The ICJ's View