Military Activities in the EEZ: A U.S.-China Dialogue on Security and International Law in the Maritime Commons (China Maritime Study, Number 7)

摘要

This volume is the product of a workshop held in Newport in July 2009 to discuss the different perspectives held by the United States and China on the legitimacy of foreign military activities in a coastal state's EEZ. The conference, addressing 'The Strategic Implications of Military Activities in the EEZ,' was attended by fifty representatives of the American and Chinese policy, military, legal, and academic communities. Its aims were to increase mutual understanding of the bases for each state's perspectives and to add a dimension of richness to ongoing talks between the two countries under the framework of the Defense Consultative Agreement and the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement. Eight papers from workshop participants are reproduced here; during the two days of substantive discussions each attendee also made other significant contributions to the success of these objectives.