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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Book/Film/Article review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Book Review - China's Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order, by Isaac Kardon
AU - Chubb, Andrew
PY - 2024/4/1
Y1 - 2024/4/1
N2 - In summary, Beijing’s preferences might be more and less rule-oriented across different areas, but the book stands as the authoritative work on this hugely consequential subject. Kardon’s empirical focus on practices ensures the text remains readable throughout, linking legal arguments with many dramatic incidents around China’s maritime periphery in recent decades, and the emerging patterns of PRC behavior in the region and around the world. It also advances a compelling critique of the international relations field’s conventional debates over the role of international law as a source (or not) of cooperation and compliance. Each of the book’s empirical chapters demonstrate in vivid detail how the role of international law is not simply a question of compliance or non-compliance, but an arena of fierce contestation and a potential source of conflictual state behavior.
AB - In summary, Beijing’s preferences might be more and less rule-oriented across different areas, but the book stands as the authoritative work on this hugely consequential subject. Kardon’s empirical focus on practices ensures the text remains readable throughout, linking legal arguments with many dramatic incidents around China’s maritime periphery in recent decades, and the emerging patterns of PRC behavior in the region and around the world. It also advances a compelling critique of the international relations field’s conventional debates over the role of international law as a source (or not) of cooperation and compliance. Each of the book’s empirical chapters demonstrate in vivid detail how the role of international law is not simply a question of compliance or non-compliance, but an arena of fierce contestation and a potential source of conflictual state behavior.
KW - UNCLOS
KW - Law of the Sea
KW - China
KW - maritime affairs
KW - maritime disputes
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 88
SP - 603
EP - 605
JO - The Journal of Military History
JF - The Journal of Military History
IS - 2
ER -