1st Edition

Freedom of Navigation and the Law of the Sea Warships, States and the Use of Force

By Cameron Moore Copyright 2021
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

There has been a recent increase in clashes between warships asserting rights to navigate and states asserting sovereignty over coastal waters. This book argues for a set of rules which respect the rights of coastal states to protect their sovereignty and of warships to navigate lawfully, whilst also outlining the limits of each. The book addresses the issue of the clash between warships and... Read more

Introduction  1.General Principles on the Use of Force and their Application at Sea  2.Unit and Collective Self Defence  3.Proportionality and the Threshold of Armed Conflict  4.Territorial and Internal Waters  5.Straits and Archipelagos  6.International Waters.  Conclusion

 

 

Biography

Cameron Moore is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Law at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. He is also Honorary Principal Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong and a visiting Associate Professor with the Centre for Military and Security Law and the Centre for Public and International Law at the Australian National University. Between 1996 and 2003, Cameron was a Royal Australian Navy legal officer. Cameron is still an active Navy reservist with the rank of Commander. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2015.