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In the era of modern nationalism, no single feature of national character and integrity is more central to the defining of what constitutes the life, livelihood, and reach of a national people than its territorial boundary. It is in this sense that analysis of the protocol signed in Rio de Janeiro in early 1942, between Peru and Ecuador, must be approached. From an informal American perspective, it may seem that the strength of a international boundaries between two South American Andean countries is irrelevant to the stability and integrity of intrinsic foreign policy in the continent. However, as we shall shortly see, this decisive protocol has informed the tenor and substance of international boundaries in the north Andean segment of South America both before and since that time. But for Ecuador and Peru, unlike for other members of the international community, the dispute represented more than borders. It represented the very standing of the countries in the international community. Indeed, as Erickson, et al.,

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cific littoral. The possession of the Napo, whilst of vital importance to Ecuador, is not of such importance to Peru, which possesses several large affluents navigable to the Amazon, especially those which flow from the south into the Maranon. . . . To the impartial observer it would seem that the boundaries of these countries--boundaries which have been so debatable and dependent upon somewhat obscure decrees--might be laid down now with some idea of proportion and stability. To give one nation [Peru] a strip of land stretching arbitrarily behind or around another nation, or cutting such off from access to navigable rivers and coasts, is irrational and unwise, and only lays the foundation for disturbance in the future. The one modern division of this formerly united Spanish territory should enjoy vast areas of territory entirely disproportionate to its population, whilst an adjoining one, of not greatly less population, is limited to a narrow zone is unnatural. Natural boundaries are best: a spirit of sane compromise would permanently establish good feeling between such nations, especially those which are in reality of the same blood and whose people are almost indistinguishable one from the other (Enock, 1914, p. 93; 102). In
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