International Relations
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Abstract
the future legal and political order of ocean space. In light of changing technological and political circumstances, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS HI) met for a decade and finally adopted a new comprehensive Law of the Sea Convention in 1982. Treating a vast array of ocean rights and duties, this treaty is of substantial complexity and embodies a mixture of both existing and new rules of international ocean law. From the perspectives of allocation of ocean rights and duties and the development of the international legal system, UNCLOS III ranks as one of the major events since World War II. In terms of broader aspects of international relations, it marks perhaps the first major diplomatic conference at which Third World states played a full and independent role in the shaping of a significant part of the international legal system.