A Research On The Legal Issues Of Conducting Military Activities In Other Country’s EEZ

One of the most great achievement of modern international maritime law, represented by UNCLOS, is establishing the EEZ system. With the system established, costal states own the broad sea, where becomes their "Private plots" of utilizing and protecting the environmental and natural resource economics. In the meantime, The EEZ system realizes reasonable allocation on marine resources between maritime powers and coastal states. However, there are little rules about conducting military activities in the EEZ in the Convention, which triggers the altercations on whether other states have the right above. Just because of this, some military incidents between America and China happened, for example, Incident in the South China Sea, Impeccable Incident.How to correctly understand UNCLOS and refine the Convention as well as it’s enforcement mechanism with the situation develops, furthermore, promote the disputes settled in peaceful means is the key of my paper. Otherwise, in terms of the problem faced by China, how to cope with these issues by legal means, is also the core which the author studies. This dissertation can be divided into four chapters.The first chapter mainly introduces the conception of military activities in other country’s EEZ and analyses the reason of the disputes.The second chapter mainly analyses international law altercations on the issue of conducting military activities in other state’s EEZ. I put forward my own views on the key debatable points, afterwards. In the end, I discuss the possible paths to settle the disputes.The third chapter mainly studies how to cope with the issue of conducting military activities in other state’s EEZ, which includes domestic legislation, establishing Air Defense Identification Zone or Maritime Identification Zone, and so on. In this basement, I put forward my views on how to cope with this issue in China.The fourth chapter researches the defect of UNCLOS, in addition, I come up with some ideas and suggestions on how to refine the Convention.