CAN A GEOGRAPHICAL BASE APPROACH BE THE SOLUTION FOR DISPUTED MARITIME REGION PARTITION? A NEW METHOD: TRANS-SEA CONNECTIONS FOR CONTINENTS
Journal Title: Deniz Araştırmaları ve Mavi Strateji Dergisi (DA&MS) (Journal of Marine Research and Blue Strategy) - Year 2021, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Sharing of marine resources and delimitation of maritime jurisdiction zones are the one of the main problems, which presents tense conflicts in an international scale. Past three decades, the Levantine Sea (in the eastern Mediterranean Sea) is the most popular marine region in this manner. Even though there have been available delimitation suggestions in the region, they add tension to conflict among regional countries. This fact tends specialists to find more negotiable methods, suggestions, or proposals to partition disputed marine regions under consensus rather than delimitation approaches. In this study, a method was developed to proportion maritime jurisdiction zones based on coastal geography and marine interactions of the countries that are in semienclosed and enclosed marine regions of the world. The method uses a series of calculations taking into account the length of connected coastline, size of interacted sea area and length of trans-sea connections of each coupled country. The method was applied in the Levantine Sea, and results were given for partition of maritime jurisdiction zones rather than delimitation. Results pointed out that current approaches defining boundaries for delimitations are geographically unfair for some countries in the region. It can be concluded that the method provides a new perspective by mean of focusing on proportion process than delimitation. Thus, the method can provide objective reference for international organization to determine objectively quota/statistics for living marine resources during period of confliction. Additionally, since the method aims proportion of maritime jurisdiction zones, it can provide initial conditions of negotiation environment in the future.
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Hançer ÇAKIROĞLU Fethi BENGİL Mehmet Sadık AKYAR
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