Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-383) and index.
Introduction -- British Gibraltar (1704-1963) -- Gibraltar incommunicado (September 1963-October 1979) -- The Lisbon Agreement (July 1979-April 1980) -- Spain's approaches to NATO (June 1980-March 1982) -- 'Different and distant'? : the Falklands/Malvinas dispute (April-June 1982) -- Spain joins NATO but the border remains closed (May-October 1982) -- Felipe opens the gates (October-December 1982) -- Towards the Brussels Declaration (March 1983-November 1984) -- The border is fully opened : negotiations get under way (January-February 1985) -- Osmosis begins (February-November 1985) -- Sovereignty and sovereigns (December 1985-April 1986) -- Into Felipe's second term (June 1986-January 1987) -- The battle over the airport (January-December 1987) -- Gibraltarians vote to resist (December 1987-March 1988) -- First visits by first ladies (April-December 1988) -- The Bossano strategy (January-February 1989) -- A European Hong Kong? (March-December 1989) -- Tackling money-laundering and smuggling (February-December 1990) -- Felipe visits London (January-May 1991) -- Four more years for Joe Bossano (May 1991-January 1992) -- The external frontier issue remains unresolved (February 1992-March 1993) -- Setbacks in moves towards economic independence (April 1993-April 1994) -- The Brussels Declaration ten years on (June-December 1994) -- Defiant Bossano finally gives way (January-July 1995) -- Changing Spanish attitudes? (July 1995-April 1996) -- All change, but no change : Aznar, Caruana and Blair in power (May-June 1997) -- Spain's full integration into NATO (May-December 1997) -- The shadow of the shared sovereignty proposal (January-December 1998) -- Confrontation sparked by fishing row escalates (January-March 1999) -- Border events continue to predominate (April-July 1999) -- A second term and a satisfying agreement for Caruana (August-April 2000) -- The saga of HMS Tireless (I) (May-December 2000) -- The saga of HMS Tireless (II) (January-May 2001) -- The Brussels Process resumed (May-October 2001) -- Piqué and Straw meet in Barcelona (November 2001) -- Rumours of joint sovereignty proposals (November 2001-January 2002) -- Gibraltarians plan their resistance (February 2002) -- Gibraltarians take to the streets (March-April 2002) -- Negotiations run into difficulties (April-May 2002) -- Straw announces agreed principles (June-July 2002) -- Gibraltar holds its own referendum (July-November 2002) -- Recognition of democratic reality (December 2002-June 2003).
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This book provides a detailed study of the attempts that have been made by Spain, to regain the sovereignty of 'the Rock', despite the wishes of the Gibraltarians.