Full Description
Incidents at Sea in US Diplomacy and International Law chronicles America's maritime struggles from 1798 to 2025, blending riveting historical narratives with in-depth legal analysis. This book chronicles pivotal maritime incidents in US history from 1798 to 2025, exploring US naval and diplomatic efforts to shape the law of the sea. Spanning fourteen chapters, the book dissects key conflicts with France, Great Britain, the Barbary States, Germany, Russia, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Libya, China and the Houthi forces in Yemen. These disputes highlight themes of freedom of navigation, innocent passage, neutral rights and protection of commerce, high seas freedoms, and gray zone coercion, armed attack and self-defense at sea. The incidents range from historical conflicts over neutral rights to contemporary challenges to freedom of navigation, which is a cornerstone of the US alliance system with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and key allies, including Australia, the Philippines, Korea and Japan.
Contents
Introduction; 1. France and the Quasi-war (1798-1800); 2. The Ottoman principalities and the Barbary wars (1801-1816); 3. Great Britain and the war of 1812 (1812-1814); 4. Great Britain, the Atlantic slave trade and the right of search (1807-1862); 5. European powers, the Paris declaration and maritime neutrality (1856-1907); 6. German U-Boats and the world wars (1914-1945); 7. North Korea and the USS Pueblo incident (1968); 8. North Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964); 9. Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the SS Mayaguez incident (1975); 10. Libya, the Gulf of Sidra, and the "Line of Death" (1981-1989); 11. Iran, Iraq and the tanker war (1980-1988); 12. The Soviet union and the Black sea bumping incident (1988); 13. The EP-3 incident and freedom of navigation "with Chinese characteristics" (2001-present); 14. Yemen: Houthi attacks in the Gulf of Aden (2023-present); 15. Conclusion: anticipating future incidents at sea.
