Kastellorizo
The Geopolitics of Maritime Boundaries and the Dysfunctionality of the Law of the Sea
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Beschreibung
The controversy around Kastellorizo, the most remote Greek
island – situated more than 500 km from mainland Greece, but
less than 3 km from the Turkish coast, in the Eastern
Mediterranean, has highlighted major systemic problems of the
law of the sea in its present state. The position paper of the
International Progress Organization examines the development
of international law since President Truman’s “Proclamation on
the Continental Shelf” shortly after World War II, analyzes the
problems that result from the rapid expansion of national
jurisdictions over vast areas of the ocean, and describes the
conflictual constellation in the Eastern Mediterranean. The
dispute over maritime jurisdiction around Kastellorizo goes well
beyond the bilateral or regional dimension. It has laid bare the
difficulties, legal as well as political, that follow from the
application of the principle that “the land dominates the sea.”
Autor*in
Hans Köchler
Themen in »Kastellorizo«
Law of the Sea Mediterranean maritime boundaries