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dc.contributor.authorBognar, Dorottya
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-07T10:03:05Z
dc.date.available2019-02-07T10:03:05Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-31
dc.description.abstractThe International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code) is a new chapter in the regulation of Arctic shipping. This international legal instrument can affect the interpretation and practice of national coastal State legislation under article 234, the Arctic exception in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Relying on documents from the IMO, this paper examines the negotiation of the relationship of these two instruments, investigating the question: how was it possible to agree on the Polar Code while avoiding a resolution of the deep conflict between Arctic coastal State jurisdiction and freedom of navigation? While early debates directly concerned article 234, the peculiarity of later discussions, which focused on savings clauses regulating relationships between instruments, was the lack of reference to this article’s provisions. Agreement was possible due to indirect negotiation of this issue, through the use of second best arguments and analogies. It is submitted that precisely the lack of discussion and resolution of this issue allowed for the possibility of completing the Polar Code. This qualifies the Polar Code as an incompletely theorised agreement in deliberative theory.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>The Polar Journal</i> on 31 July 2018, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468627> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468627</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBognar, D. (2018). The elephant in the room: article 234 of the Law of the Sea Convention and the Polar Code as an incompletely theorised agreement. <i>The Polar Journal, 8</i>(1), 182-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468627en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1607087
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/2154896X.2018.1468627
dc.identifier.issn2154-896X
dc.identifier.issn2154-8978
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14641
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofThe final version of this paper is part of:<p> Bognar-Lahr, D. (2019). Navigating between freedom of navigation and coastal State jurisdiction: An analysis of Russia’s participation in the negotiation of the IMO’s mandatory Polar Code, 2009-2015, from a deliberative theory framework. (Doctoral thesis). <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16096>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/16096. </a>
dc.relation.journalThe Polar Journal
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/NORRUSS/220636/Norway/Arctic Shipping through Challenging Waters//en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240en_US
dc.subjectPolar Codeen_US
dc.subjectlaw of the seaen_US
dc.subjectArctic shippingen_US
dc.subjectdecision-makingen_US
dc.subjectnegotiation processen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Law: 340en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Rettsvitenskap: 340en_US
dc.titleThe elephant in the room: article 234 of the Law of the Sea Convention and the Polar Code as an incompletely theorised agreementen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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