Peru‐Ecuador Border Conflict: Missed Opportunities, Misplaced Nationalism, and Multilateral Peacekeeping

Resumen

In 1942, four such friendly nations brought Peru and Ecuador together, after a short but bitter war between them, to settle their differences once and for all by signing a treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Boundaries, known the Rio Protocol. These four countries were Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States. Their representatives also signed that treaty, as guarantors that the Protocol would be faithfully executed.... (McBride, 1949: 2-3). Nevertheless, because differences between the parties have continued to remain, almost 50 years later the guarantors find themselves still trying to