| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
The Spratly Islands region and why it is important. Local economic importance of the Spratly region -- Regional security importance of the Spratlys -- Importance of the Spratly region to the United States -- Legal basis and claims in the Spratly Islands scrum. Customary international laws and claims -- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Spratly claims -- U.S interests and responses to the issues around the Spratly Islands. U.S. freedom of navigation interests -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The Spratly Islands warrant better understanding by U.S. policymakers in order to discuss nuanced responses to the region's challenges. To attain that needed understanding, legal aspects of customary and modern laws are explored to analyze the differences between competing maritime and territorial claims and why and how the parties involved stake rival claims or maritime legal rights. Throughout the monograph, the policies of the United States are examined through its conflicted interests in the region. Recommendations for how the United States should engage these issues, a more appropriate task than trying to solve the disputes outright, are then offered |
| Analysis |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea / (1982) |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed January 3, 2014) |
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"December 2013." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-159) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 December 10) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83149072
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 December 10) fast |
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Territorial waters -- South China Sea
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Jurisdiction, Territorial.
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Security, International -- South China Sea
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International law
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Jurisdiction, Territorial
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Security, International
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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Territorial waters
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South China Sea -- Strategic aspects
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Spratly Islands -- International status
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Spratly Islands -- Strategic aspects
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South China Sea
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Spratly Islands
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South China Sea -- UN -- law of the sea -- border conflicts -- China -- USA.
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Asia Pacific -- regional security -- strategy -- USA -- Spratly Islands.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.
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Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.
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