Rev. edition of: United States responses to excessive maritime claims. 2nd edition c1996.

Includes index.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Maintaining Freedom of the Seas -- Chapter Two I dentification of Excessive Maritime Claims -- Chapter Three Historic Waters -- Chapter Four Baselines -- Chapter Five Territorial Sea -- Chapter Six Contiguous Zone -- Chapter Seven Exclusive Economic Zone -- Chapter Eight Continental Shelf -- Chapter Nine Archipelagos -- Chapter Ten I n The Territorial Sea -- Chapter Eleven Straits Used for International Navigation -- Chapter Twelve Overflight Restrictions -- Chapter Thirteen Navigation and Overflight in Archipelagos -- Chapter Fourteen Navigation in Exclusive Economic Zones -- Chapter Fifteen Marine Data Collection -- Chapter Sixteen Submarine Cables and Pipelines -- Chapter Seventeen Polar Areas -- Chapter Eighteen Environmental Protection and Resource -- Chapter Nineteen Sovereign Immunity and Sunken Ships -- Chapter Twenty Maritime Law Enforcement -- Chapter Twenty-One The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy -- Appendices -- Index.

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Now in a third, revised edition, Excessive Maritime Claims by J. Ashley Roach and Robert W. Smith is designed for law of the sea and maritime law specialists. The book draws on published governmental material in the public domain, specifically the U.S., and addresses recent progress in maritime security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by sea, piracy, and protection of underwater cultural heritage. As a result of significant developments in the law of the sea, primarily with reference to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, Excessive Maritime Claims provides up to date coverage of current affairs as well as introduce new topics such as: submarine cables, polar areas, environmental protection, sovereign immunity and sunken ships, and maritime law enforcement.