Vessel Collisions in the Law of the Sea

The South China Sea Arbitration

Alfredo C. Robles Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-16-9792-0 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the decision of the Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration that China had operated its law enforcement vessels in ways that created risks of collision with Philippine official vessels at Scarborough Shoal in April and May 2012. The book explains the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) and the incidents in layperson’s terms. It analyzes China’s violations of the COLREGS on the basis of confidential Philippine documents declassified for the Arbitration, technical works by professional mariners, and the reports submitted by the navigational safety experts to the Tribunal. It pays attention to Chinese post-arbitration critiques of the Tribunal ’s decision, which it characterizes as rationalizations of collisions as instruments of Chinese foreign policy. It contrasts China’s conduct with the practice of the US and Western European States, which mandate compliance with collision regulations even during law enforcement operations. Thebook draws on sources in five languages (English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish), and helps the reader understand the pattern of China’s harassment of vessels from littoral and non-littoral States in the South China Sea as well as the absence of legal foundations for China’s rationalizations of its behavior.

Alfredo C. Robles, Jr. is a University Fellow at De La Salle University, Philippines. He holds doctorate degrees from the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France, and Syracuse University, USA. He is the author of French Theories of Regulation and Conceptions of the International Division of Labour (1994), The Political Economy of Interregional Relations: ASEAN and the EU (2004), The Asia-Europe Meeting: The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism (2008), The South China Sea Arbitration: Understanding the Awards and Debating with China (2018), and Endangered Species and Fragile Ecosystems in the South China Sea: The Philippines v. China Arbitration (2020).

1. Introduction.- 2. The Uncontested Factual Background.- 3. The COLREGS, Mariners, and States.- 4. The COLREGS and the Arbitral Tribunal’s Jurisdiction.- 5. The Violations of the COLREGS as Violations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.- 6. Towards a Critique of the Rationalizations of Collisions as Instruments of Chinese Foreign Policy.- 7. Summary and Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2022
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 222 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Zivilverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Schlagworte	China's attitude to International Law • China’s attitude to International Law • China's harassment of vessels in the South China Sea • China’s harassment of vessels in the South China Sea • China's maritime disputes • China’s maritime disputes • Default and international courts • International Collision Regulations • Maritime incidents in the South China Sea • Non-appearance and international courts • Scarborough Shoal standoff 2012 • South China Sea Arbitration • UNCLOS dispute settlement
ISBN-10	981-16-9792-2 / 9811697922
ISBN-13	978-981-16-9792-0 / 9789811697920
Zustand	Neuware