CIL Co-Head of the Ocean Law and Policy Programme, Emeritus Professor Robert Beckman, has contributed a chapter titled Challenges to Navigation Rights and High Seas Freedoms in the Indo-Pacific to the recently released book, Viability of UNCLOS amid Emerging Global Maritime Challenges, edited by Lan Anh T. Nguyen and Hai Dang Vu and published by Springer.

In this chapter, Professor Beckman examines the evolving challenges to navigation rights and high seas freedoms in the Indo-Pacific region, with a particular emphasis on the South China Sea. The analysis explores potential actions Indo-Pacific States may consider to address what they view as China’s excessive maritime claims, which pose a significant threat to the rules-based legal order established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

The book is available as an Open Access publication and can be accessed here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-5838-8_11.