Dangerous ground
Subtitle: the Spratly Islands and U.S. interests and approaches
By: Clarence J. Bouchat
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute; Army War College (U.S.). Press
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781584876045
Subjects: Territorial waters; Territorial Jurisdiction; International Security; Strategic aspects; International status; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Other titles: Spratly Islands and US interests and approaches; Spratly Islands and United States interests and approaches
Description: The Spratly Islands warrant better understanding by U.S. policymakers in order to discuss nuanced responses to the region's challenges. To attain that needed understanding, legal aspects of customary and modern laws are explored to analyze the differences between competing maritime and territorial claims and why and how the parties involved stake rival claims or maritime legal rights. Throughout the monograph, the policies of the United States are examined through its conflicted interests in the region. Recommendations for how the United States should engage these issues, a more appropriate task than trying to solve the disputes outright, are then offered.
Notes: "December 2013."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-159).

Also available online in PDF format from Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) web site.
Table of contents: title: The Spratly Islands region and why it is important. Local economic importance of the Spratly region; title: Regional security importance of the Spratlys; title: Importance of the Spratly region to the United States; title: Legal basis and claims in the Spratly Islands scrum. Customary international laws and claims; title: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Spratly claims; title: U.S interests and responses to the issues around the Spratly Islands. U.S. freedom of navigation interests; title: Conclusion.