Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region

James Kraska, S.J.D., is the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law, US Naval War College and Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School. Ronán Long, Ph.D., is the Director of the WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University. Myron Nordquist, S.J.D., is a Distinguished Fellow, Stockton Center for International Law, US Naval War College.

Preface


Acknowledgement


List of Illustrations


Notes on Contributors


Featured Papers

1 Tribute to Ambassador Satya N. Nandan

  Myron H. Nordquist



2 Reflections on Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region

  Shunji Yanai



3 The Legal Regime of the Deep Seabed as a Paradigm for Global Governance of Natural Resources

  Michael W. Lodge



4 International Law Making

  Rüdiger Wolfrum



5 Governance of Marine Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction: Searching for Sustainable Solutions in the Southeast Pacific

  Ronán Long and Mariamalia Rodríguez Chaves



6 Our Manifold but Common Maritime Order

  Atsuko Kanehara



Part 1

Baselines and Archipelagic States

7 Archipelagic Atoll States and Sea Level Rise

  Clive Schofield and David Freestone



8 Archipelagic Spratlys: China’s Desperate Attempt to Preserve Expansionist Policy?

  Henry S. Bensurto Jr.



9 China’s Excessive Straight Baselines Claims

  James Kraska



10 Revisiting the Legal Status of Dependent Archipelagic Waters from First Principles

  Richard Barnes



11 Straight or Archipelagic Baseline with Respect to Offshore Archipelago?

  Dai Tamada



Part 2

Navigation Rights/Law Enforcement

12 The Applicability of Human Rights Treaties in Maritime Law Enforcement

  David S. Goddard



13 Navigation Rights and Law Enforcement: An Australian Perspective

  David Letts



14 Do We Still Need an ‘Expansionist/Revisionist’ Theory of Self-Defense at Sea?

  Kyo Arai



15 In Quest of the Optimal Legal Framework for Maritime Law Enforcement against Foreign State Vessels in the Territorial Sea

  Masahiro Kurosaki



Part 3

Arctic Shipping

16 Governance Considerations on Low Impact Corridors in Canadian Arctic Waters

  Aldo Chircop



17 Navigational Rights and the Coastal State’s Jurisdiction in the Northern Sea Route

  Kentaro Wani



18 The Role of East Asian Port States in Addressing Ship-Source Pollution in Arctic Shipping

  Zhen Sun



Part 4

East China Sea Maritime Boundaries

19 The Quest for a Win-Win Solution in the Delimitation of Continental Shelf in the East China Sea: An Irreconcilable Conflict between China and Japan?

  Hironobu Sakai



20 State Practice as a Factor Impacting Potential East China Sea Boundaries

  Stuart Kaye



21 asean and Peaceful Management of Maritime Disputes in the South China Sea

  Robert Beckman and Vu Hai Dang



Part 5

Preservation of the Marine Environment, Including the Hazard of Plastic Debris

22 Designing an International Instrument for Combating Marine Plastic Pollution

  Tomofumi Kitamura



23 Common But Differentiated Responsibilities as a Guiding Principle towards a Potential International Treaty on Plastic and Marine Litter

  Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien



24 Implications of a New Treaty for Marine Biodiversity for the Asia-Pacific Region

  Joanna Mossop



Part 6

Issues Arising Out of Climate Change

25 The bbnj Agreement: Strengthening the Oceans-Climate Nexus?

  Karen N. Scott



26 Regime Interaction between the Law of the Sea and Climate Change Law

  Naoki Iwatsuki



Index