Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region

Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: Myron H. Nordquist

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 9004412026

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Cooperation and Engagement in the Asia-Pacific Region brings together contributions from leading experts around the world in the law of the sea. The volume addresses topics such as regional cooperation, protection and preservation of the marine environment, freedom of navigation, sustainable fisheries, and future cooperation within the important Asia-Pacific region. This book provides valuable insight into a region that encompasses many important maritime regions, and harbors promising opportunities for maritime cooperation and engagement.


China's Maritime Gray Zone Operations

China's Maritime Gray Zone Operations

Author: Andrew S. Erickson

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 159114695X

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China’s maritime “gray zone” operations represent a new challenge for the U.S. Navy and the sea services of our allies, partners, and friends in maritime East Asia. There, Beijing is waging what some Chinese sources term a “war without gunsmoke.” Already winning in important areas, China could gain far more if left unchecked. One of China’s greatest advantages thus far has been foreign difficulty in understanding the situation, let alone determining an effective response. With contributions from some of the world’s leading subject matter experts, this volume aims to close that gap by explaining the forces and doctrines driving China’s paranaval expansion, operating in the “gray zone” between war and peace. The book covers China’s major maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy units, with particular focus on China’s second and third sea forces: the “white-hulled” Coast Guard and “blue-hulled” Maritime Militia. Increasingly, these paranaval forces, and the “gray zone” in which they typically operate, are on the frontlines of China’s seaward expansion.


The Free Sea

The Free Sea

Author: James Kraska

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1682471179

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The Free Sea offers a unique, single-volume analysis of incidents in American history that affected U.S. freedom of navigation at sea. The book spans more than 200 years, beginning in the Colonial era with the Quasi-War with France in 1798 and extending to contemporary Freedom of Navigation operations in the South China Sea. Through wars and numerous crises with North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Russia and China, freedom of navigation has been a persistent challenge for the United States, a nation reliant on open seas for economic prosperity, military security and global order. This volume focuses on the struggle to retain freedom of the seas. Challenges to U.S. warships and maritime commerce have pushed, and continue to challenge, the United States to vindicate its rights through diplomatic, legal, and military means, underscoring the need for the strategic resolve in the global maritime commons.


Unresolved Issues And New Challenges to the Law of the Sea

Unresolved Issues And New Challenges to the Law of the Sea

Author: Anastasia Stratē

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9004151915

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This work analyzes the management of shared fish stocks; protection of the underwater cultural heritage; the possibilities of establishing marine protected areas and other means for safeguarding vulnerable marine ecosystems; the use of the high seas for intelligence as well as recent developments on interdiction of vessels on the high seas. Special emphasis is paid to the role of international courts and tribunals in the progressive development of the law of the sea as well as the ability of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to accommodate new uses and challenges, such as new concerns, new technological possibilities, in particular, new contexts and functions of established rules. The 1982 Convention seems capable of coping with most of them, although it remains useful to explore its possibilities and limits. This work, covering many aspects, will be useful to anyone interested in the law of the sea.


Japanese Maritime Security and Law of the Sea

Japanese Maritime Security and Law of the Sea

Author: Yurika Ishii

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9004500413

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Japan, the geopolitical lynchpin in the East Asian region, has developed a unique maritime security policy and interpretation of the law of the sea. Japanese Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea examines Japan’s domestic laws and its approach to international law.


Excessive Maritime Claims

Excessive Maritime Claims

Author: J. Ashley Roach

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2012-06-22

Total Pages: 998

ISBN-13: 9004217738

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This title is designed for law of the sea and maritime law specialists. The coverage includes current affairs in martime law such as submarine cables, polar areas, environmental protection, sovereign immunity and sunken ships, and maritime law enforcement.


Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention

Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention

Author: Myron H. Nordquist

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009-02-28

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 904742705X

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Freedom of the seas and passage rights is a highly topical subject for the international community that cuts across a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines and maritime operations. The contents of the book include in-depth analysis of current international and regional approaches to freedom of navigation, transit passage through straits used for international navigation, archipelagic sea lanes passage, scientific research and hydrographic surveys in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), military surveys in the EEZ, as well as vessel source pollution and protection of the marine environment. Many of the chapters describe measures in place at multilateral and regional levels to improve information sharing and operational coordination. This collection will especially appeal to those concerned with freedom of the seas and passage rights. The CD accompanying the volume includes important documents such as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea as well many PowerPoint presentations delivered at the conference. It also includes a draft index to the multi-volume series United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary. This book contains the edited papers and associated documents from the 32nd annual Virginia conference held in Singapore, January 9-10, 2008. Presentations were delivered by government officials, senior naval and coast guard commanders as well as by leading jurists and academics with impressive expertise in the law of the sea.


Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea

Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea

Author: Natalie Klein

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0199566534

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Maritime security is of increasing importance in a world threatened by terrorism, piracy, and drug-trafficking. This book sets out and evaluates the legal framework regulating the use of force on the oceans, as well as challenges like illegal fishing and environmental damage. It suggests that more flexible rules are needed to safeguard the seas.


Security and Technology in Arctic Governance

Security and Technology in Arctic Governance

Author: Stefan Kirchner

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2022-08

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 3643914814

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Because the impact of climate change is felt acutely in the Arctic, this region has gained increasing global attention in recent years. Since the last days of the Cold War, a particular system of international governance that includes local stakeholders, in particular indigenous peoples, and that transcends political divisions, has been created among the Arctic states. In Security and Technology in Arctic Governance, researchers from different disciplines investigate current and emerging challenges for the governance of the Arctic that are connected to security concerns and the use of modern technology.