International Maritime Armed Conflicts

摘要

The author in this article presented the institute of international maritime armed conflict, its origin and character.Maritime war is closely connected with war in entirety and is its component part. It is banned as a manner of resolving the international disputes. The notion international maritime armed conflict is larger than notion war, because some sorts of international armed conflicts will not always have the beginning of war as its consequence. From the very beginning, rules of maritime war were the part of custom law, but in 19th century the process of adoption has started by adopting numerous international and humanitarian law conventions. Maritime war has two specific features. The first feature is battlefield including internal sea waters, territorial and open sea, and the second feature is the ship as the means of war. There is an institute of war maritime blockade defined as closing of seaports or parts of coast, whether enemy or proper, and even neutral if it is in power of enemy.