Military Activities In The Exclusive Economic Zone Under UNCLOS: A Functional Proportionality Test For The Due Regard Standard

S. P. Mohan Raj, LL.M., University of Madras, Chennai ABSTRACT The exclusive economic zone under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982, represents a carefully drawn compromise between coastal State resource authority and the navigational freedoms of other States. That compromise has become increasingly contested where coastal States claim that foreign military exercises or manoeuvres in the EEZ require prior consent. Several maritime States reject such claims, arguing that...