The Research On Archipelagic Country Regime

International law scholars start to notice and research the archipelago issue after 1920s'.The archipelago issue was discussed at the meeting about the Hague international law compilation in 1930.For some reasons, such as technical materials, finally there was no regulation about the issue .At the first and second U.N. maritime law meeting Indonesia and Philippine and some other archipelagic countries emphasized on the special geographic characters of archipelago, claimed archipelagic theory, and put forward suggestion or bills.But the archipelagic issue was still unsolved because of its complexity. At the Ocean Flour Committee of 1973, Britain and other archipelagic countries proposed bills. At the third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea archipelagic countries were listed in the fourth part in the convention based on the two bills and combining other proposals. Thus archipelagic country, a new regime, was finally established. This regime refers to precedent that an archipelagic country enjoys sovereignty over its archipelago and its waters, and also regulates what rights other countries have in its waters.The paper has three parts:1.Narrate briefly the development and evolution of the archipelagic theory 2.Analyze the rules' content of archipelagic countries combining bills and relative regulation in the convention3.Combining discussion about the application scope of archipelagic theory at the third U.N. maritime law meeting discuss the archipelago issue in continent countries, and suggest what rules are followed in South China Sea Islands...