Vessel collisions in the law of the sea : the South China Sea arbitration / Alfredo C. Robles Jr.
2022
KZA1146.C6
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Title
Vessel collisions in the law of the sea : the South China Sea arbitration / Alfredo C. Robles Jr.
ISBN
9789811697937 (electronic bk.)
9811697930 (electronic bk.)
9789811697920
9811697922
9811697930 (electronic bk.)
9789811697920
9811697922
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan ; [Philippines] : De La Salle University Publishing House, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-9793-7 doi
Call Number
KZA1146.C6
Dewey Decimal Classification
341.4/480916472
Summary
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. The book 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).
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Table of Contents
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.
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.