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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Interception of Vessels on the High Seas: Contemporary Challenges to the Legal Order of the Oceans 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.