Biography
Stuart Kaye is Director and Distinguished Professor of Law within the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong. He holds degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney and a doctorate in law from Dalhousie University. He has written a number of books, including Australia’s Maritime Boundaries (2001), The Torres Strait (1997), International Fisheries Management (2001), and Freedom of Navigation in the Indo-Pacific Region (2008), and over 100 other academic publications. He was appointed to the International Hydrographic Organization’s Panel of Experts on Maritime Boundary Delimitation in 1995 and in 2000 was appointed to the List of Arbitrators under the Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2007 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2011.
International Cooperation and Ocean Governance under the Antarctic Treaty System
Stuart Kaye
Abstract
Since the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), international relations in the Antarctic have been characterised by strong cooperation between the States active on the continent and in the waters surrounding it, and the prioritisation of science to provide the basis of such cooperation. From the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, the region has been free of conflict, or even serious disagreement, and the original agreement has been supplemented by a widening series of associated instruments and resolutions, some of which are applicable to ocean governance. This is all the more remarkable, given the Antarctic Treaty came into force at the height of the Cold War, including the United States and Soviet Union among its founding State parties, and the region is home to a number of conflicting and unresolved sovereignty claims. This paper will consider the structure and operation of the Antarctic Treaty System in the context of ocean governance and identify those aspects of it that have allowed it to form a durable model for peaceful and effective international cooperation.
