In a period of growing tensions within the maritime domain, this timely new book brings together a combination of academic and practical expertise to present an account of the critical areas of the law of naval warfare. It provides a comprehensive, academically rigorous and practically relevant treatment of the law applicable to naval conflicts that will be of value to governments and their advisers, defence forces, academics, students and historians. The extensive expert analysis of the key issues includes topics such as: ¿ Interaction with peacetime law of the sea ¿ Maritime zones ¿ Targeting, distinction and deception ¿ Submarine warfare ¿ Legal status of merchant vessels and direct participation in hostilities by civilians ¿ Blockade ¿ Prize law ¿ Non-International Armed Conflict at Sea ¿ New technologies and non-traditional vessels ¿ Hospital ships ¿ Intelligence collection ¿ Interaction with Australian domestic legal obligations ¿ Environmental issues

"This volume offers critical perspectives on UNCLOS' marine scientific research regime, the implementation of this regime, and governance approaches to new marine technologies"--

Published at a time when international law was processing the challenges introduced during World War II and the Korean Conflict, and when the United Nations, the World Court and other new international bodies were exerting influence as judicial bodies, Tucker's analysis was a timely guide to a legal field in the midst of unprecedented change. Tucker is professor emeritus of American foreign policy at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and UC-Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in political science, he is the author of several notable books including The Just War (1960), The Inequality of Nations (1977) and, with David C. Hendrickson, The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose (1992). xiii, 448 pp.

In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Heebøll-Holm shows that piracy was often part of private wars between English, French, and Gascon ports and mariners, occupying a liminal space between crime and warfare.