Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System : Historical Lessons, Current Challenges / edited by Shirley V. Scott, Tim Stephens, Jeffrey McGee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Shirley V., editor.

Stephens, Tim, editor.

McGee, Jeffrey, editor.

Series:

Springer Polar Sciences, 2510-0483

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict of laws.

International law.

Comparative law.

Environmental management.

Environmental law.

Environmental economics.

International economic relations.

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

Environmental Management.

Environmental Law.

Environmental Economics.

International Economics.

Local Subjects:

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

Environmental Management.

Environmental Law.

Environmental Economics.

International Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book explores how geopolitical tensions have shaped the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and offers insights into managing future challenges. The ATS, established with the 1959 Antarctic Treaty during the Cold War, has been a successful model of international governance, ensuring Antarctica's peaceful use and environmental protection. However, the ATS now faces new pressures, including an expanded membership of 57 states, increased economic activities such as tourism, fishing, and bio-prospecting, and the impacts of climate change. These factors are exacerbating geopolitical tensions that could challenge the stability of the ATS. The book examines key moments in the history of the ATS to understand how past tensions were managed and what lessons can be drawn for the future. The volume covers the creation of the CCAMLR marine conservation treaty in the late 1970s-1980s; the developing world's opposition to the ATS in United Nations debates during the 1980s-1990s; the shift from permitting Antarctic mining to establishing the Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection in the early 1990s; the formation of the International Association of Antarctic Tourism Operators; the management of Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing in the 2000s; and the proposals for marine protected areas under the CCAMLR Convention in recent years. Several contributions also draw on critical and regional perspectives to make sense of geopolitical pressures on Antarctic governance and how they might play out over the years and decades ahead. Through its attention both to critical turning points in the history of the ATS, and a broad range of conceptual approaches, the book provides an authoritative assessment of the ATS's capacity to address emerging geopolitical stresses and provides strategies for future governance. It is a timely resource for understanding the evolving dynamics in Antarctica and ensuring the region remains a zone of peace and scientific collaboration. This book is a companion volume to McGee, Edmiston and Haward, 2022, The Future of Antarctica: Scenarios form Classical Geopolitics, in the Springer Polar Sciences Series. Chapter 18 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Antarctic Treaty System in the Context of Geopolitical, Technological and Environmental Change

Part I. Historical Case Studies

Chapter 2. Management of Southern Ocean marine living resources: The origins and development of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

Chapter 3. The tension between regional and universal regimes for Antarctic governance

Chapter 4. Managing Antarctic tourism: Cooperation between industry and Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties

Chapter 5. The CAMLR Convention and IUU Fishing

Chapter 6. CCAMLR current challenges: Implementation of marine spatial planning for marine biodiversity conservation

Chapter 7. Antarctic heritage as a nation-building block since 1972

Part II. Current Geopolitical Tensions in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Chapter 8. Implications of Current Global Tensions on the Effectiveness of the Antarctic Treaty System

Chapter 9. Environmental change and geopolitical tension in the Antarctic Treaty System

Chapter 10. Consensus under pressure in CCAMLR: Suggesting rigour and clarity in process and interpretation to help alleviate internal and external pressures

Chapter 11. Non-militarisation of Antarctica: Geopolitical foundations and challenges

Chapter 12. Geopolitical changes and futures of CCAMLR

Chapter 13. Sub-Antarctic Islands: Sovereignty issues

Chapter 14. Mining in Antarctica to 2048 and beyond

Part III. Perspectives on Antarctic Geopolitics

Chapter 15. Classical geopolitics and Antarctica

Chapter 16. Feminist perspectives

Chapter 17. Chinese perspectives on Antarctic geopolitics

Chapter 18. A South American Perspective on Antarctic Geopolitics

Chapter 19. An Indian Perspective on Antarctic Geopolitics: Balancing between Normative and Instrumental Imperatives

Part IV. Conclusions

Chapter 20. Synthesis and lessons drawn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789819798087

9819798086