Robert C. Beckman is Director, Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Clive H. Schofield is Professor and Director of Research at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resource and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia. An earlier version appeared in The Straits Times. This article was published in RSIS Commentary on 19 February 2014.
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