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"Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an extended continental shelf, with a maritime zone almost equalling its land borders, a 'window of opportunity' has opened for the country to realise its developmental aspirations. Yet, it faces numerous challenges, many of which are entwined. This book is a detailed analysis of Bangladesh's maritime strategy. It charts the country's maritime legacies, including disputes with both Myanmar and India and analyses the contributions of the leadership in the maritime territorial gains. The author examines Bangladesh's need to consolidate these newly reclaimed gains, whilst exploring the unremitting interest of major global power players in maintaining maritime resource exploitation, navigation and security. Finally, the author demonstrates how the country needs to embrace the notional principles of sustainable development of its ocean economy to utilize its resources and how it has since been coming to grips with the emerging concept of "blue economy" to enhance its enduring national development. The first systematic study on Bangladesh's maritime policy and the country's importance in the emerging geopolitical rivalry in the Indian Ocean, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian and Indian Ocean politics"--

"Equity emerged as a powerful symbol of aspired redistribution in international relations. Operationally, it has had limited impact in the Westphalian system of nation states - except for maritime boundary delimitations. This book deals with the role of equity in international law, and offers a detailed case study on maritime boundary delimitation in the context of the enclosure movement in the law of the sea. It assesses treaty law and the impact of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It depicts the process of trial and error in the extensive case law of the International Court of Justice and arbitral tribunals and expounds the underlying principles and factors informing the methodology both in adjudication and negotiations. Unlike other books, the main focus is on equity and its implications for legal methodology, in particular offering further guidance in the field of international economic law"--

This new monograph on maritime delimitation by Dr. Nuno Antunes is based on a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. The work is one of legal, political and technical analysis of an aspect of the law of the sea that is of current interest in all regions of the world

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editor and contributor biographies -- Introduction -- Part I Regional maritime order overview -- 1 China-ASEAN relations in the South China Sea: Persistent features and obstacles to cooperation -- China-ASEAN relations in the wake of the arbitration award -- Competing sovereignty claims in the South China Sea -- The poisoned chalice of San Francisco -- The Law of the Sea Convention: sowing more confusion than clarity so far -- The low procedural bar of Article 281(1) -- Instability of jurisprudence on LOS textual provisions -- China-ASEAN relations in the South China Sea and persistent features -- Cycles of strain and progress in relations -- A couple of key takeaways -- Concluding remarks and looking ahead -- Notes -- 2 The East China Sea: Sea of regional and global confrontation -- Introduction -- Border delimitation -- Practical arrangements in the absence of agreed EEZ borders -- Fisheries agreements under the UNCLOS regime -- The 2008 Japan-China understanding on hydrocarbon exploitation -- Preventing and dealing with incidents -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part II National perspective -- 3 Historic concepts vs. contemporary maritime regimes in UNCLOS: China's claims in the South China Sea -- Definition -- Historic water -- Historic right -- Historic title -- Historic concepts and maritime delimitation -- Historic concepts related dispute settlement under UNCLOS -- China's historic claim in the SCS -- Historic concepts vs. new maritime regimes in the SCS -- Implication from the South China Sea arbitration case -- Historic doctrine: still relevant in contemporary international law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Navigational rights, freedoms, and interests in the South China Sea: The Philippines' perspective -- Introduction -- Navigation and overflight in UNCLOS

According to the author, the poor knowledge of the maritime boundaries of the Sabah-Sulu maritime region is related to the unusual set of treaties delimiting the Philippines which are rather unique but confusing at the same time. This confusion is further compounded by the presence of a myriad of islands, islets and reefs in the Saban-Sulu zone where maritime boundaries have not been strictly administered in the past. The author addresses these issues in the paper. (DÜI-Sen)

Considers the outer limit of the territorial sea, loxodromes and geodesics, charting maritime boundaries, and the outer limits of the continental shelf, in the context of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea.