The Exclusive Economic Zone: The Geopolitical Role of the International Court of Justice in the Peru-Chile and Nicaragua-Colombia Cases (2001-2014)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/geop.74653
Keywords: International Court of Justice, South America, legal-geopolitical discourse, ocean geopolitics, Exclusive Economic Zone

Abstract

The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is one of the few legal and geopolitical concepts built from the political south in international relations. In Latin America, understanding the role of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as an agent that reinterprets the legal-geopolitical discourse of the litigating States, in order to later redistribute power, is essential to understand the dynamics of the maritime limits of the region. Our point is that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) does not improve the security of maritime borders before the ICJ considering the close connection between international custom and the content of the treaty. Thus this research is developed from a comparative geopolitical analysis for the 1939-2014 period, and is built on the basis of a nonexperimental qualitative methodology focused on the geopolitical analysis of discourse.

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Diego Ignacio Jiménez Cabrera, University of Santiago de Chile

I am a doctor in American Continental Studies at University of Santiago de Chile. Currently, I am professor at Universidad San Sebastián's Department of Law and Government. E-mail: diego.jimenez.cabrera@gmail.com ORCID ID: 0000–0002–7408–1398. Cell phone: +56990808389. Main articles:

Manzano, K. y Jiménez, D. (2020). El agua del Altiplano y su papel en las conversaciones chileno–bolivianas de 1950. Diálogo Andino, (61), 55–66.

Arratia, E., Jiménez, D. y Barría, A. (2020). Does the end justify the means? The FARC and drug trafficking as related crime. Revista Científica General José María Córdova, 18 (32), 841–856.

Aldo Garrido Quiroz, University of Santiago de Chile

Aldo is a Master in International Studies at University of Santiago de Chile. Currently, he is a doctoral candidata in American Continental Studies at the aforementioned university. E-mail: aldo.garrido.quiroz@gmail.com. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2504-2955. Cell phone: +56999166516. Most relevant articles:

Arratia, E.  y Garrido, A. (2019) ¿Tabú o pragmatismo? El dilema de López Obrador sobre el tráfico de drogas. Revista de Relaciones Internacionales, Estrategia y Seguridad, 14 (1), 73–85.

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Published
2022-06-16
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Jiménez Cabrera D. I. y Garrido Quiroz A. (2022). The Exclusive Economic Zone: The Geopolitical Role of the International Court of Justice in the Peru-Chile and Nicaragua-Colombia Cases (2001-2014). Geopolítica(s). Revista de estudios sobre espacio y poder, 13(1), 83-113. https://doi.org/10.5209/geop.74653
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)
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