It would seem that there is no rule of law to stop metropolitan States from exploiting the full potential of their island dependencies. The "scattered confetti... of Empire" is destined to provide the send-off for colonialism's second honeymoon. It appears that the loose drafting of the 1982 Convention's regime of islands may confound the aspirations of many of UNCLOS Ill's NIEO-inspired delegates. For just as the Enclosure Acts gradually alienated the English commons, so the compromise text of Article 121 is allowing the appropriation by individual States of vast swathes of the "common heritage of mankind".
Palm-fringed benefits: island dependencies in the new law of the sea
O'Keefe, Roger
1996
Abstract
It would seem that there is no rule of law to stop metropolitan States from exploiting the full potential of their island dependencies. The "scattered confetti... of Empire" is destined to provide the send-off for colonialism's second honeymoon. It appears that the loose drafting of the 1982 Convention's regime of islands may confound the aspirations of many of UNCLOS Ill's NIEO-inspired delegates. For just as the Enclosure Acts gradually alienated the English commons, so the compromise text of Article 121 is allowing the appropriation by individual States of vast swathes of the "common heritage of mankind".
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