04542nam a22006015i 4500 978-981-16-9793-7 DE-He213 20250103112328.0 cr nn 008mamaa 221208s2022 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789811697937 978-981-16-9793-7 10.1007/978-981-16-9793-7 doi K5459 LNAC5 bicssc LAW006000 bisacsh LNAC5 thema 347.09 23 Robles Jr., Alfredo C. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Vessel Collisions in the Law of the Sea [electronic resource] : The South China Sea Arbitration / by Alfredo C. Robles Jr. 1st ed. 2022. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. XVI, 222 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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. 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). Mediation. Dispute resolution (Law). Arbitration (Administrative law). International relations. Private international law. Conflict of laws. International law. Comparative law. Peace. Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration. Foreign Policy. Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law. International Relations. Peace and Conflict Studies. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789811697920 Printed edition: 9789811697944 Printed edition: 9789811697951 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9793-7 ZDB-2-LCR ZDB-2-SXLC 12646 12646 0 0 0 0 MU MU 2025-01-03 2025-01-03 2025-01-03 EB