ABSTRACT
Many of the maritime disputes today represent a competing interest of two groups: coastal states and user states. This edited volume evaluates the role of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in managing maritime order in East Asia after its ratification in 1994, while reflecting upon various interpretations of UNCLOS. Providing an overview of the key maritime disputes occurring in the Asia Pacific, it examines case studies from a selection of representative countries to consider how these conflicts of interest reflect their respective national interests, and the wider issues that these interpretations have created in relation to navigation regimes, maritime entitlement, boundary delimitation and dispute settlement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Regional maritime order overview
chapter 1|23 pages
China–ASEAN relations in the South China Sea
part II|92 pages
National perspective
chapter 3|16 pages
Historic concepts vs. contemporary maritime regimes in UNCLOS
chapter 4|31 pages
Navigational rights, freedoms, and interests in the South China Sea
chapter 6|19 pages
Balancing the rights of coastal states and user states in the post-UNCLOS age
chapter 7|12 pages
The United States and accession to UNCLOS
part III|48 pages
Navigation related issues and UNCLOS
chapter 10|20 pages
Maritime confidence-building measures
part IV|80 pages
Maritime entitlement, delimitation and dispute settlement and UNCLOS