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February 17, 2012

[SSJ: 7174] New Report on Maritime Resources in East and Southeast Asia

From: Tracy Timmons-Gray
Date: 2012/02/17

NBR has just released the second of two major reports that examine maritime resources in East and Southeast Asia. This new report, Maritime Energy Resources in
Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation, is free to access through April 15, 2012. A link to the full report and a summary are below.

"Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation" (NBR Special Report, February 2012)

By Clive Schofield, Ian Townsend-Gault, Seokwoo Lee, I Made Andi Arsana, Dustin Kuan-Hsiung Wang, Jianwei Li, Ramses Amer, Lowell Bautista, and Tara Davenport

Link: http://m.nbr.org/ybRff8

SUMMARY

In the new NBR Special Report "Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation," a team of international scholars, led by principal investigator Clive Schofield (University of Wollongong), examines key challenges and developments in the international legal sphere affecting maritime jurisdictional disputes in East and Southeast Asia and considers options for managing disputes in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Gulf of Thailand.

The report includes analysis of the relevant international legal systems and articles within the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an assessment of the complexities and positive developments of both historical and current maritime disputes, and an exploration of joint development arrangements in the region offering potential lessons for today's boundary disputes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

"Maritime Cooperation in Contested Waters: Addressing Legal Challenges in East and Southeast Asian Waters,"
by Clive Schofield

"Maritime Cooperation in a Functional Perspective," by Ian Townsend-Gault

"UNCLOS and the Obligation to Cooperate," by Seokwoo Lee

"Adding Further Complexity? Extended Continental Shelf Submissions in East and Southeast Asia," by I Made Andi Arsana and Clive Schofield

"The Regime of Islands under UNCLOS: Implications for the South China Sea." By Clive Schofield and Dustin Kuan-Hsiung Wang

"Recent Practices in Dispute Management in the South China Sea," by Jianwei Li and Ramses Amer

"The Implications of Recent Decisions on the Territorial and Maritime Boundary Disputes in East and Southeast Asia," by Lowell B. Bautista

"Joint Development in Asia: Some Valuable Lessons Learned," by Tara Davenport

Link to report: http://m.nbr.org/ybRff8

This report is free to download through April 15, 2012.

This report emerged from the three-year study, "Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Opportunities for Joint Development," which is supported by the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Asia Security Initiative.

Tracy Timmons-Gray

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

Seattle, WA

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