04496nam a22005895i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001000172072001800182072002300200072001700223082001500240100008400255245013000339250001800469260008200487300006300569336002600632337002600658338003600684347002400720505040200744520200901146650001503155650003003170650003803200650002903238650003103267650002203298650002303320650002103343650001103364650004803375650002003423650007903443650002903522650003203551710003403583773002603617776003603643776003603679776003603715856004603751912001403797912001503811999001703826952006303843978-981-16-9793-7DE-He21320250103112328.0cr nn 008mamaa221208s2022    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898116979379978-981-16-9793-7  a10.1007/978-981-16-9793-72doi  aK5459  aLNAC52bicssc  aLAW0060002bisacsh  aLNAC52thema  a347.09223  aRobles Jr., Alfredo C.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut  aVessel Collisions in the Law of the Seah[electronic resource] :bThe South China Sea Arbitration /cby Alfredo C. Robles Jr.  a1st ed. 2022.  aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2022.  aXVI, 222 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda  a1. 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.  aThis 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).  aMediation.  aDispute resolution (Law).  aArbitration (Administrative law).  aInternational relations.  aPrivate international law.  aConflict of laws.  aInternational law.  aComparative law.  aPeace.  aDispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration.  aForeign Policy.  aPrivate International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.  aInternational Relations.  aPeace and Conflict Studies.  aSpringerLink (Online service)  tSpringer Nature eBook  iPrinted edition:z9789811697920  iPrinted edition:z9789811697944  iPrinted edition:z9789811697951  uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9793-7  aZDB-2-LCR  aZDB-2-SXLC  c12646d12646  00104070aMUbMUd2025-01-03r2025-01-03w2025-01-03yEB