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1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Hemmens
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Homeowner Associations ◽  
Private Government ◽  
At Home

The Crisis over the Imia Rocks and the Aegean Sea Regime: International Law as a Language of Common Interest

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelos Raftopoulos
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
The Public ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
Pragmatic Dimension

AbstractSovereignty is a concept of international public interest. In the case of the Imia Rocks, the public interest nature of territorial sovereignty may be found in the undisputed treaty delimitation of the archipelagic entity of the Dodecanese Islands between Italy and Turkey, 1932, and the Peace Treaty of Paris, 1947. Turkey's subsequent conduct, its signature without reservation of the Helsinki Final Act and its claim for the bilateralisation of the Aegean Sea Dispute Agenda on the basis of a geo-political equity are all evidence of the acceptance of the delimitation regime of the Aegean Sea. The public interest regime of the LOS Convention makes questionable Turkey's recourse to the abstract notion of a "semi-enclosed" sea and provides the basis for understanding the pragmatic dimension of the Imia Rocks crisis in the light of the protection and promotion of international common interest.

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