This book focuses on the decision of the Tribunal in the South China Sea Arbitration that China had operated its law enforcement vessels in ways that created risks of collision with Philippine official vessels at Scarborough Shoal in April and May 2012.
Alfredo C. Robles, Jr. is a University Fellow at De La Salle University, Philippines. He holds doctorate degrees from the Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France, and Syracuse University, USA. He is the author of French Theories of Regulation and Conceptions of the International Division of Labour (1994), The Political Economy of Interregional Relations: ASEAN and the EU (2004), The Asia-Europe Meeting: The Theory and Practice of Interregionalism (2008), The South China Sea Arbitration: Understanding the Awards and Debating with China (2018), and Endangered Species and Fragile Ecosystems in the South China Sea: The Philippines v. China Arbitration (2020).
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. The Uncontested Factual Background.- 3. The COLREGS, Mariners, and States.- 4. The COLREGS and the Arbitral Tribunal’s Jurisdiction.- 5. The Violations of the COLREGS as Violations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.- 6. Towards a Critique of the Rationalizations of Collisions as Instruments of Chinese Foreign Policy.- 7. Summary and Conclusions.