In the light of growing regional and international disputes, many world organizations and other regional blocs have reached many treaties and conventions for an amicable settlement of different tensions and specifying rights of various nation-state on waters, i.e. seas. In this volume we have compiled the text of some select conventions and treaties. This book consists of the following chapters: Global and Maritime Security, Global Peace and Security: International Treaties and Conventions on Seas; Convention on the High Seas, 1958; Conventions on the Continental shelf, 1958; International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, 1946; International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954; The Antarctic Treaty, 1959; Convention on the Prevention of Marine Polluton by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter, 1972; Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, 1988; Convention on the Protection and use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, 1992 and International Agreement on High Seas Fishing, 1995 etc.
Definitely, students and researchers in the field of defence studies, international Law, and politics besides service personnel and policy-makers will find this volume useful and informative.
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