TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bouchat,Clarence J.
ED  - Army War College (U.S.).
TI  - Dangerous ground: the Spratly Islands and U.S. interests and approaches 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carlisle, PA
PB  - Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press
KW  - South China Sea
KW  - UN
KW  - law of the sea
KW  - border conflicts
KW  - China
KW  - USA
KW  - Asia Pacific
KW  - regional security
KW  - strategy
KW  - Spratly Islands
KW  - UNCLOS
KW  - territorial waters
N1  - Title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed January 3, 2014); "December 2013."; SIP1407; Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-159); The Spratly Islands region and why it is important. Local economic importance of the Spratly region -- Regional security importance of the Spratlys -- Importance of the Spratly region to the United States -- Legal basis and claims in the Spratly Islands scrum. Customary international laws and claims -- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Spratly claims -- U.S interests and responses to the issues around the Spratly Islands. U.S. freedom of navigation interests -- Conclusion
N2  - The Spratly Islands warrant better understanding by U.S. policymakers in order to discuss nuanced responses to the region's challenges. To attain that needed understanding, legal aspects of customary and modern laws are explored to analyze the differences between competing maritime and territorial claims and why and how the parties involved stake rival claims or maritime legal rights. Throughout the monograph, the policies of the United States are examined through its conflicted interests in the region. Recommendations for how the United States should engage these issues, a more appropriate task than trying to solve the disputes outright, are then offered
UR  - http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo45589
ER  -