TY - JOUR AU - Bajrektarević, Anis H. AU - Oremović, Enis AU - Kulenović, Adil PY - 2021/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Growing maritime dispute between Croatia and Bosnia JF - AEI Insights JA - AEI Insights VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/AEIINSIGHTS/article/view/31663 SP - 83-88 AB - <p>Since Hugo Grotius’s famous Mare Liberum of 1609 the accessibility of the international<br>waters (free naval regime) has been the international custom observed by all (civilized) nations.<br>Ever since, the so-called Freedom of the Seas Doctrine has gradually elaborated on the notion<br>of territorial waters, continental shelf, economic zones and its demarcation distances. As the<br>technological breakthroughs made economic exploitation possible and military offences<br>probable, the international community repeatedly tried to codify the customary rules into the<br>text of the comprehensive universal legally binding instrument. Not before after WWII, which<br>was extensively fought on the seas by nearly all major belligerent parties, the critical<br>momentum has been built. The first two negotiation rounds have been conducted in 1950s<br>leading to the successful closure of the UNCLOS I (1956) and UNCLOS II (1958, 1960). With<br>over 160 participatory states and after nine consecutive years of heavy negotiations, the<br>UNCLOS III was closed in 1982 (entering into force by 1994).</p> ER -