Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-18353-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

This powerful book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation. Newly emergent resources, accessible through global climate change, discovery, or technological advancement, highlight time-tested problems of sovereignty and challenge liberal internationalism's promise of beneficial or shared solutions. From the High Arctic to the hyper-arid reaches of the Atacama Desert, from the South China Sea to the history of the law of the sea, from doctrinal and scholarly treatments to institutional forms of global governance, the historically recurring problem of territorial temptation in the ageless age of scarcity calls into question the future of the global commons, and illuminates the tendency among states to share resources, but only when necessary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossi, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Energierecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Tradition, tendency, temptation; 2. The Grotian tendency in his time and ours; 3. The temptation of Uti Possidetis; 4. Terra Nullius and the 'unique' international problem of Svalbard; 5. Problems of governance: the Arctic and the club within the club; 6. Sharing sovereignty: Jura Novit Curia? and the Gulf of Fonseca; 7. Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a sovereign access to the sea; 8. Conclusions on the future of the global commons.

Über Autor(innen)

Rossi, Christopher
Christopher Rossi is a Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He gained his BA from Washington University, his JD from the University of Iowa, his LLM from the University of London, and his MA and PhD from The Johns Hopkins University.