Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

Klappentext This book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of resource scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation. Zusammenfassung This powerful reworking of the liberal tradition of international law uses Grotius as the vehicle for understanding coming challenges to the global commons. Fundamental problems of scarcity, sovereignty, anachronistic thinking, and territorial temptation are interwoven in historical and contemporary contexts to illuminate the tendency among states to share resources, but only when necessary.

Autorentext

Christopher R. Rossi is a Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. He gained his B.A. from Washington University, his J.D. from the University of Iowa, his L.L.M. from the University of London, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

Zusammenfassung
This powerful reworking of the liberal tradition of international law uses Grotius as the vehicle for understanding coming challenges to the global commons. Fundamental problems of scarcity, sovereignty, anachronistic thinking, and territorial temptation are interwoven in historical and contemporary contexts to illuminate the tendency among states to share resources, but only when necessary.

Inhalt

1. Tradition, tendency, temptation; 2. The Grotian tendency in his time and ours; 3. The temptation of Uti Possidetis; 4. Terra Nullius and the 'unique' international problem of Svalbard; 5. Problems of governance: the Arctic and the club within the club; 6. Sharing sovereignty: Jura Novit Curia? and the Gulf of Fonseca; 7. Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a sovereign access to the sea; 8. Conclusions on the future of the global commons.