International Regimes And The Construction And Safeguard Of Malaysia's Ocean Rights

This article mainly analyzes the ocean rights position of Malaysia from the perspective of the international regimes. This paper argues that the making United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea has confined the range of Malaysia's ocean rights and interests. Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has been advocated 3-nautical miles maritime sovereignty and have no other specific claims of ocean rights. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is the base of Malaysia's a series of ocean rights claims. Such as 12 nautical miles, continental shelf and exclusive economic zone etc. International mechanisms not only confined Malaysia's ocean rights claims, but also provided its strong support for the maintenance of ocean rights. Malaysia made use of International Court of Justice to maintain their sovereignty on some oceanic islands.Besides,The Association of Southeast Asian Nations,Five Power Defense Arrangements and other multilateral cooperation mechanisms are used to safeguard its ocean rights and interests. Based on the above analysis, this paper believes that the international Regimes is an important tool for the construction and maintenance of international interests.