Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency

ISBN-13: 9781316634974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 370 str.

Christopher R. Rossi

Opis

This book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of resource scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation.

Spis treści

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.