As a follow-up to the 2009 Pacific Health Summit on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), NBR spoke with Madhukar Pai about progress in the field of diagnostics since 2009 and the current state of MDR-TB in India and globally.

Clive Schofield

This is the introduction to the report "Maritime Energy Resources in Asia: Legal Regimes and Cooperation." Principal investigator Clive Schofield (University of Wollongong), led a team of international scholars who examined key challenges and developments in the international legal sphere affecting maritime jurisdictional disputes in East and Southeast Asia and considered options for managing disputes in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Gulf of Thailand.

Ian Townsend-Gault

This essay argues that effective management of maritime resources, as well as the preservation and protection of the marine environment in enclosed and semi-enclosed seas such as the Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea, and East China Sea, is possible only if the littoral states cooperate with one another in the discharge of their obligations and the pursuit of their rights.

Seokwoo Lee

This essay seeks to clarify the obligatory language in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in order to improve compliance with the convention.

I Made Andi Arsana and Clive Schofield

This essay examines submissions to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), with particular reference to East and Southeast Asia, and assesses their impact on the already complex and contentious maritime claims in the region.

Clive Schofield and Dustin Kuan-Hsiung Wang

This essay explores the contentious issue of islands and their associated claims to maritime jurisdiction in international law with particular reference to the islands/rocks in East and Southeast Asia and especially the disputed islands of the South China Sea.

Jianwei Li and Ramses Amer

This essay describes the dispute situation in the South China Sea and adjacent areas and studies the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to dispute management, with a special focus on China’s policy and practice.

Lowell B. Bautista

This essay examines recent decisions of international courts and tribunals—specifically, the 2009 Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case between Romania and Ukraine—and draws implications for the territorial and maritime boundary disputes in East and Southeast Asia.

Tara Davenport

This essay will examine joint development arrangements (JDA) in Asia and discuss the rationale for states entering into these JDAs, factors that influenced negotiations, and provisions that have contributed to the success of JDAs in Asia.