Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation: The Grotian Tendency
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- xiii, 356p.
This powerful study stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discus the challenges of scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation. Newly emergent resources, accessible through global climate change, discovery, or technological advancement, highlight time tested problems of sovereignty and challenge liberal internationalism's promise pf beneficial or shared solutions.
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1. Tradition, Tendency, Temptation The Sustaining Power of the Grotian Tradition Life Expressions of Tradition Reconstructing the Grotian Tradition 2. The Grotian Tendency in His Time and Ours The Significance The Context Spanish-Luso Competition 3. The Temptation of Uti Possidetis Idiosyncrasy, Ambiguity, and Ambivalence in the Arctic Cryosphere The Arctic Ocean Geomorphology and the Northern Sea Route Definitions and Dimensions 4. Terra Nullius and the "Unique" International Problem of Svalbard Increasing tensions over Resources and the Dynamic Interpretation of the Svalbard Treaty Signs of Cooperation A Dramatic Deterioration 5. Problems of Governance: The Arctic and the Club Within the club The Arctic 5: A Niche Governance Association? The Arctic Council Club Dueling Arctic Fora? 6. Sharing Sovereignty: Jura Novit Curia? and the Gulf of Fonseca Condominia in International Law The Historical Setting Pre-Independence 7. Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a Sovereign Access to the Sea A Duty to Negotiate What? Judge Owada's Question 8. Conclusions on the Future of the Global Commons