Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

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Cambridge University Press, Apr 27, 2017 - Law - 356 pages
Enter Uti Possidetis Juris: A Short Modern History -- Uti Possidetis: Origins and Development of the Effectivités -- The Problem of Effective Possession and the Arctic -- Analogous Recourse to Uti Possidetis to Avoid Non Liquet -- Uti Possidetis and the Northern Sea Route -- Conclusion -- 4 Terra Nullius and the "Unique" International Problem of Svalbard -- Increasing Tensions over Resources and the Dynamic Interpretation of the Svalbard Treaty -- Signs of Cooperation -- A Dramatic Deterioration -- Coordinated Opposition to Norway -- Origins of the Current Dispute -- The Meaning of Full and Absolute Sovereignty -- The Poverty of Competing Historical Narratives -- The Proto-Commons Agreement of 1872 -- A Different Kind of No-Man's-Land -- The Historical Difficulty with Spitsbergen's Common Administration: Contested Claims -- The Problematic Rise of the Term Terra Nullius -- Robert Lansing's View -- Guano -- The Condominium Discussions of 1910, 1912, and 1914 -- The Paris Peace Conference -- Conclusion -- 5 Problems of Governance: The Arctic and the Club Within the Club -- The Arctic 5: A Niche Governance Association? -- The Arctic Council Club -- Dueling Arctic Fora? -- The Global Arctic -- Gaps in Governance -- The Function of Soft Law -- The Creeping Coastal State Agenda -- 6 Sharing Sovereignty: Jura Novit Curia? and the Gulf of Fonseca -- Condominia in International Law -- The Historical Setting -- Pre-Independence: 1522-1821 -- Post-Independence: 1821-1917 -- Condominium and Outside Interests -- Condominium and Harmony of Interests -- The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty and Its Aftermath -- The 1917 Decision of the CACJ and Its Aftermath -- Conclusions -- 7 Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a Sovereign Access to the Sea -- A Duty to Negotiate What? Judge Owada's Question -- Chile's View -- Bolivia's View -- The ICJ's View
 

Contents

Tradition Tendency Temptation
1
The Grotian Tendency in His Time and Ours
31
Contents
57
The Temptation of Uti Possidetis
80
Terra Nullius and the Unique International
129
Contents
134
The Arctic and the Club
170
Jura Novit Curia ? and the Gulf
194
and Harmony of Interests
212
Condominium in the Atacama Desert and a Sovereign
233
Conclusions on the Future of the Global Commons
277
Selected Bibliography
293
Author Index
335
Subject Index
343
Table of Cases Index
355
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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.

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