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Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International law of transport & communications
The law of maritime delimitation has been mostly developed through
the case law of the International Court of Justice and other
tribunals. In the past decade there have been a number of cases
that raise questions about the consistency and predictability of
the jurisprudence concerning this sub-field of international law.
This book investigates these questions through a systematical
review of the case law on the delimitation of the continental shelf
and the exclusive economic zone. Comprehensive coverage allows for
conclusions to be drawn about the case law's approach to the
applicable law and its application to the individual case. Maritime
Boundary Delimitation: The Case Law will appeal to scholars of
international dispute settlement as well as practitioners and
academics interested in the law concerning the delimitation of
maritime boundaries.
The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one
major issue in the relations between China and Southeast Asian
countries. The South China Sea issue, however, is countered by the
deepening economic integration between China and Southeast Asia,
which is likely to continue should China's proposal for a 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road is agreed and implemented. Yet the
success or not of this proposal depends also on the interactions in
the political-security sphere between both sides.Southeast Asia and
China: A Contest in Mutual Socialization brings together experts
from different disciplines to illuminate on the complex political,
economic and normative interactions between China and the Southeast
Asian countries. This book analyses key issues including the
national identity discourse of China as a Great Power, China's
civil-military interactions in its strategy in the South China Sea
dispute, the different kinds of political and strategic strategies
used by Southeast Asian countries in countering China, the past
patterns and present trajectories of economic ties between China
and Southeast Asian countries, as well as the strategic
implications of China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative.
Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential
for enormous influence over world trade and national economies.
Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce
laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking
and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national
corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes
that law and who benefits affects all states and all market
players. Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical
study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows
who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out
ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three
episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its
original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of
competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and
between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank,
IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs craft international laws. Global
Lawmakers proposes an original theory of international
organizations that seek to construct transnational legal orders
within social ecologies of lawmaking. The book concludes with an
appraisal of creative global governance by the UN in international
commerce over the past fifty years and examines prospective
challenges for the twenty-first century.
This book provides a comprehensive view of the maritime safety and
security challenges in countries of the Indian Ocean Rim
Association (IORA). Various issues such as trans-national crime
including piracy, terrorism, drug and arms smuggling; Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief (HA/DR) and maritime and
aeronautical Search and Rescue (SAR); Illegal, Unreported and
Unregulated (IUU) fishing and resource management for sustainable
development are viewed from the perspectives of IORA members. It
also discusses the role of cooperative organizational structures
and the need for capability building and capacity optimization in
the light of existing legal frameworks for enhancing maritime
safety and security in the Indian Ocean.
Gas transit is network-dependent and it cannot be established
without the existence of pipeline infrastructure in the territory
of a transit state or the ability to access this infrastructure.
Nevertheless, at an inter-regional level, there are no sufficient
pipeline networks allowing gas to travel freely from a supplier to
the most lucrative markets. The existing networks are often
operated by either private or state-controlled vertically
integrated monopolies who are often reluctant to release unused
pipeline capacity to their potential competitors. These obstacles
to gas transit can diminish the gains from trade for states endowed
with natural gas resources, including developing landlocked
countries, as well as undermine WTO Members' energy security and
their attempts at sustainable development. This book explains how
the WTO could play a more prominent role in the international
regulation of gas transit and promote the development of an
international gas market.
Through judicial opinions, statutes, conventions, documents, and
textual notes, this Admiralty casebook shows how lawyers help their
clients reallocate the risks inherent in domestic and international
maritime transactions, and how lawyers help resolve disputes that
arise from maritime transportation. The Sixth Edition updates the
treatment of the usual topics and significantly rearranges the
structure. A new chapter titled "Loss Allocation" combines previous
chapters on general average, marine insurance, and limitation of
liability into a single presentation. This new chapter addresses
questions such as whether a potential loss can be reallocated in
advance; whether to leave the loss where it falls or to make the
duty-breacher pay; and whether the loss is limited, shared, or
diverted to another party. The editors have sought to keep the
Sixth Edition both comfortable for long-time users and accessible
to new users.
How are China's ongoing sovereignty disputes in the East and South
China Seas likely to evolve? Are relations across the Taiwan Strait
poised to enter a new period of relaxation or tension? How are
economic interdependence, domestic public opinion, and the
deterrence role played by the US likely to affect China's relations
with its counterparts in these disputes? Although territorial
disputes have been the leading cause for interstate wars in the
past, China has settled most of its land borders with its
neighbours. Its maritime boundaries, however, have remained
contentious. This book examines China's conduct in these maritime
disputes in order to analyse Beijing's foreign policy intentions in
general. Rather than studying Chinese motives in isolation, Steve
Chan uses recent theoretical and empirical insights from
international relations research to analyse China's management of
its maritime disputes.
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