Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon -- List of acronyms and abbreviations / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon -- References of principal international agreements / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon -- Preface / Chia-Jui Cheng -- Opening address / Wang Ching-Hsu -- Welcoming address / Frederik F. Chien -- Welcoming address / Chen-Fang Ma -- Welcoming address / Dr. Louis R. Chow -- 1.1 The impact of European liberalization on operations between Asia and Europe / Neelie Smit-Kroes -- 1.2 The commercial and regulatory aspects of traffic between Asia and Europe, and Asia and North America / Chatrachai Bunya-Ananta -- 1.3 A perspective on the US approach to international civil aviation in the Pacific / Rachel B. Trinder -- 1.4 Asian deregulation policy: Which example to follow? / Chia-Jui Cheng -- 2.1 Legal and commercial aspects of data gathering by remote sensing / Bin Cheng -- 2.2 Legal aspects of aerospace planes / Carl Q. Christol -- 2.3 Legal problems of Direct Broadcasting by Satellite --programme, advertising and copyright issues / Toshio Kosuge -- 2.4 International Telecommunications and ITU developments / Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan -- 2.5 Legal aspects of the international space station. Genuine partnership or no genuine partnership: what is the question? / Frans G. Von Der Dunk -- 3.1 Government responsibility and aviation security / Rodney Wallis -- 3.2 Airline liability and terrorism / Andreas F. Lowenfeld -- 3.3 Insurance considerations for airline operations in the Asia Pacific region / Rod D. Margo -- 4.1 “What a piece of work is Warsaw”: The need for a pragmatic approach to air carrier liability / Peter Harbison -- 4.2 Liability of governmental bodies in international civil aviation / Doo Hwan Kim -- 4.3 Environment, congestion and the development of international civil aviation / Mitsunari Kawano -- 4.4 Recent European developments concerning product liability / Dirk Slijper -- 5.1 The experience of regional cooperation: the example of ESA / Michel Bourely -- 5.2 The benefits of space activities for Asian countries / Sompong Sucharitkul -- 5.3 Cooperation and competition in space transportation / H. Peter Van Fenema -- 6.1 New types of agreements in international air transport / Chong-Ko Tzou and Chia-Jui Cheng -- 6.2 Foreign ownership of international airlines: a European view / Bernard Wood -- 6.3 Prospects for cooperation in Asia / M. Soeparno -- 6.4 The globalization of international air transport / Henri Wassenbergh -- 6.5 Final Document of the International Conference on the Highways of Air and Outer Space over Asia / Chia-Jui Cheng , Pablo Mendes De Leon , and Athar Husain Khan -- Back Matter -- List of speakers, lecturers and session chairmen / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon -- List of participants / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon -- Index / Athar Husain Khan Editors: Chia-Jui Cheng and Pablo Mendes De Leon.

The nineties will be a turning point for international air transport and for space activities. Trends in civil aviation and outer space policies show the need to join forces to promote common interests, leading to the strengthening of the 'region' as a basis of co-operation. As international air transport benefits from progressive liberalization at the same time ever greater regional co-operation between governments as well as between airlines is emerging. The European Communities offer a most interesting example of both trends, provoking similar initiatives in other areas of the world, among them East Asia. With respect to commercial space activities, more especially those in the field of space transportation, a similar need for regional and even world-wide co-operation is arising. In order to contribute to the promotion of a balanced regional approach in both civil aviation and outer space activities, the Graduate Institute of European Studies at Tamkang University and the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University organized a major international conference, entitled The Highways of Air and Outer Space Over Asia , in May 1991. The present work is the result of that conference. It is a collection of articles by the most qualified academics and practitioners from Asia, North America and Europe, covering topical subjects in the field of international civil aviation and outer space activities such as regulatory reform, aviation safety and security, liability in international air transport, the future Euro-Asian aviation relationship, the commercialization of outer space and cooperation between Europe and Asia with respect to outer space activities with special emphasis on the relationships between Asia on the one hand and Europe and the United States on the other.

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