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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Interception of Vessels on the High Seas: Contemporary Challenges to the Legal Order of the Oceans 2013 by Efthymios Papastavridis
The principal aim of this book is to address the legal questions arising from the right of visit on the high seas in the 21st century. This is the most significant exception to the fundamental principle of the freedom of the high seas a freedom that has been challenged by a sharp increase in interceptions to counter the threats of international terrorism and WMD proliferation and to suppress transnational organised crime. The author questions whether non-interference has been so significantly curtailed as to have lost its relevance in the contemporary legal order of the oceans. Beginning with an historical and theoretical examination of the framework underlying interception the book then looks at the legal framework of the right of visit contemporary challenges to the right interference on the high seas for the maintenance of international peace and security interferences to maintain the bon usage of the oceans piracy jure gentium and current counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia the problems posed by illegal unregulated and unreported fishing interdiction operations to counter drug and people trafficking and recent interception operations in the Mediterranean Sea organised by FRONTEX.