Ong Khai Long, D (2023) Discerning the International Legal Threshold for Acquisition of Sovereignty over Remote & Uninhabited Islands - Implications for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. In: Kraska, J and Yang, H, (eds.) Peaceful Management of Maritime Disputes. Routledge. ISBN 9781032416137

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Abstract

Islands tend to loom large in the imagination of states. It is almost as if states view their islands, especially the smaller and far-flung ones, as children that have somehow been separated from their motherlands, forever needing to be protected from would-be encroachers. These parental attitudes over minute maritime territories are arguably no longer over-blown given the legal possibility that even specks of land on a map can generate 200 nautical mile (nm)-wide exclusive economic zones (EEZ) and continental shelf areas that stretch even beyond the 200-nm limit, according to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Nevertheless, for many countries around the world, and particularly those states facing the littoral seas of the Asia-Pacific theatre -encompassing the East and South China Seas - the prospect of extensive maritime jurisdiction zones around these islands seems to be of less concern than the need to assert indisputable title over such maritime territory. In other words, maritime jurisdiction zones are seen as important but adjunct to confirmation of their sovereignty over the “marine-terrestrial.”

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Law
Publisher:	Routledge
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2024 10:58
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2024 10:58
DOI or ID number:	10.4324/9781003377214-2
Editors:	Kraska, J and Yang, H
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22366

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