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The law of the sea is an up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of this branch of public international law. It begins by tracing the historical origins of the law of the sea and explaining its sources, notably the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. This is followed by chapters examining the various maritime zones into which the sea is legally divided, namely internal waters, the territorial sea, archipelagic waters, the contiguous zone, the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zone, the high seas and the International Seabed Area. In each case the legal nature of the zone and its physical dimensions are analysed. Separate chapters deal with the baselines from which the breadths of most maritime zones are delineated and the law governing the delimitation of boundaries between overlapping maritime zones. Later chapters discuss how international law regulates the safety of navigation, fisheries and scientific research, and provides for protection of the marine environment from pollution and biodiversity loss. The penultimate chapter addresses the question of landlocked States and the sea. The final chapter outlines the various ways in which maritime disputes may be settled. Throughout the book detailed reference is made not only to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, but also to other relevant instruments, the burgeoning case law of international courts and tribunals, and the academic literature.
port. At least in part as a consequence of these factors, developing landlocked States are among the world’s poorest States: seventeen of them are included in the forty-six States on the UN’s list of least developed countries. 7 Proportionately, that is almost twice as many as coastal States. As far as the law of the sea is concerned, there are three main issues concerning landlocked States: (1) their
Mankind (CHM) in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Article 1(1) as ‘the Area’, composed by the deep seabed beyond the national jurisdiction of any country (UNCLOS 1982 , Art. 1(1)). Deep-sea mining involves mining rich deposits of minerals on this deep seabed under the high seas and is slowly emerging as a viable industry. As there has been little mining activity in the Area to date, the environmental
The sea and International Relations is a path-breaking collection which opens up the conversation about the sea in International Relations (IR), and probes the value of analysing the sea in IR terms. While the world’s oceans cover more than 70 percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in IR, being treated either as a corollary of land or as time. Yet, the sea is the quintessential international space, and its importance to global politics has become all the more obvious in recent years. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from IR, historical sociology, blue humanities and critical ocean studies, The sea and International Relations breaks with this trend of oceanic amnesia, and kickstarts a theoretical, conceptual and empirical discussion about the sea and IR, offering novel takes on the spatiality of world politics by highlighting theoretical puzzles, analysing broad historical perspectives and addressing contemporary challenges. In bringing the sea back into IR, The sea and International Relations reconceptualises the canvas of IR to include the oceans not only as travel time, but as a social, political, economic and military space which affects the workings of world politics. As such, The sea and International Relations is as ambitious as it is timely. Together, the contributions to the volume emphasise the pressing need to think of the world with the sea rather than ignoring it in order to address not only the ecological fate of the globe, but changing forms of international order.
Scope of the book This book is concerned with the public international law of the sea – that is to say, with the rules and principles that bind States in their international relations concerning maritime matters. Accordingly, it does not discuss, except incidentally, the rules of private maritime law, which concern matters such as marine insurance, carriage of goods by sea
about: her ship, the international law of the sea, Europeans’ moral responsibilities, and conditions faced by migrants in Libya. At the same time, she convincingly claimed that she preferred her actions to do the talking for her. The role of Rackete has also been important in that it deflected emotions away from the migrants rescued by the NGOs – and thus away from an asymmetrical extension of compassion – towards the rescuers. The deflection of emotions away from the migrants may also have helped to subvert humanitarianism’s tendencies to perpetuate ‘the neo
laws, which impose duties on states and other actors to value and preserve human life. This disinformation campaign against search and rescuers, as well as others like it elsewhere, can be seen as a rejection by some of that claim – rather, they implicitly argue, humanitarian values are not universal. In this case, opponents rejected the Law of the Sea, which require vessels to rescue any person at sea whose ship is in danger, and the Refugee
nuclear weapons, the construction of a wall in occupied Palestinian territory, and the forced closure of a PLO office in New York. The rulings in an advisory procedure are not binding. 57 The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) was established in 1996 within the framework of UNCLOS. ITLOS is based in Hamburg
Settlement of disputes under general international law It might seem that the settlement of disputes is a topic that should be addressed in specialised texts, rather than in a general textbook on the law of the sea. There is, however, good reason for offering an overview of dispute settlement at this point. At the heart of the UNCLOS III package deal was an essential
Definition ‘Strait’ is not a term of art, and it is not defined in any of the conventions produced by the United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea. It bears its ordinary meaning, being ‘geographically, a narrow passage between two land masses or islands or groups of islands connecting two sea areas.’ 1 It is the legal status of the