Full Description
The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order. Despite expanding power and influence, Asian states have played a minimal role in creating the norms and institutions of international law; today they are the least likely to be parties to international agreements or to be represented in international organizations.
That is changing. There is widespread scholarly and practitioner interest in international law at present in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as developments in the practice of states. The change has been driven by threats as well as opportunities. Transnational issues such as climate change and occasional flashpoints like the territorial disputes of the South China and the East China Seas pose challenges while economic integration and the proliferation of specialized branches of law and dispute settlement mechanisms have also encouraged greater domestic implementation of international norms across Asia. These evolutions join the long-standing interest in parts of Asia (notably South Asia) in post-colonial theory and the history of international law.
The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific brings together pre-eminent and emerging specialists to analyse the approach to and influence of key states of the region, as well as whether truly 'Asian' trends can be identified and what this might mean for international order.
Contents
1: Introduction
2: Simon Chesterman: Asia's Ambivalence on International Law
3: Tan Hsien-Li: Regional Organizations
4: Tony Anghie: History and Theory of International Law
5: WPS Sidhu: Regional Peace and Security
6: Hurst Hannum: Human Rights
7: Suzannah Linton: International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law
8: Ben Boer: International Environmental Law
9: Robert C. Beckman: Law of the Sea
10: Wang Jiangyu: International Economic Law
11: Hisashi Owada: Dispute Settlement
12: Li Zhaojie: China
13: Toshiki Mogami: Japan
14: Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee: South Korea
15: Vitit Muntabhorn: Thailand
16: Hikmahanto Juwana: Indonesia
17: Romel Bagares: The Philippines
18: Li-ann Thio and Kevin YL Tan: Singapore
19: Abdul Ghafur Hamid @ Khin Maung Sein: Malaysia
20: Trinh Hai Yen: Vietnam
21: Mahdev Mohan: Cambodia
22: Catherine Renshaw: Myanmar
23: BS Chimni: India
24: Ahmer Bilal Soofi: Pakistan
25: Kamal Hossain and Sharif Bhuiyan: Bangladesh
26: Pratyush Nath Upreti and Surya Subedi: Nepal
27: Rohan Perera: Sri Lanka
28: Marina Girshovich: Central Asian States
29: Veronica Taylor: Afghanistan
30: Ben Saul: Australia
31: Kenneth Keith: New Zealand
32: Jennifer Corrin: Pacific Island States
