Common Heritage or Common Burden?: The United States Position on the Development of a Regime for Deep Sea-Bed Mining in the Law of the Sea Convention

ISBN-13: 9780198252276 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 384 str.

Markus G. Schmidt; Elliot L. Richardson

Opis

This study presents a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the U.S. role in the United Nations negotiations on the Law of Sea and on one of the remaining commons, the ocean floor beyond national jurisdiction. Drawing on material collected from interviews with many key negotiators, the study provides a better understanding of domestic and international decision-making procedures and the dynamics of international negotiations.

Recenzje

`'The attempt made in the book to discuss a few schools of thought as models should facilitate any attempt to understand sea-bed politics...The book does well to highlight the domestic political and legal scenarios before going on to discuss the role of the United States in the actual negotiations...The author fills the information vacuum that obtains with the help of interviews of many of those who participated in the negotiations...The importance of the present book lies in its coverage of US policy on the development of the law of the sea in the post-UNCLOS period as well.'' International Studies