TY - BOOK AU - Robles Jr., Alfredo C. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Vessel Collisions in the Law of the Sea: The South China Sea Arbitration SN - 9789811697937 AV - K5459 U1 - 347.09 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Mediation KW - Dispute resolution (Law) KW - Arbitration (Administrative law) KW - International relations KW - Private international law KW - Conflict of laws KW - International law KW - Comparative law KW - Peace KW - Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration KW - Foreign Policy KW - Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law KW - International Relations KW - Peace and Conflict Studies N1 - 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 N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9793-7 ER -