PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nautical Mile, United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea, World Trade Organization
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Learn to cite (including how to use ibid. ). Identifying the argument: make sure you understand the concept of cyber-utopianism. Goal: improve your grade by 10 percent. Creates global society that functions based on laws, norms, rights instead of military might and muscle: ideally, international law should be the primary arbiter for resolving territorial disputes. Sustainable peace and security are made possible by a rules-based regime, generally accepted by countries, that equalizes powerful actors and their less influential ones. There are 2 legal disputes: who owns islands? (called insular features since some are just large rocks and built coral reefs, the extent to which each state can police the waters, near the feature they own. China is making a huge claim based on the so-called nine dash line : nine dash line: everything inside the line is china"s territory. (altered by the. Brunei, malaysia, the philippines, taiwan and vietnam also have claims on these insular features .
