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With nation-states fiercely protective of their sovereign rights and national interests, it is no wonder that so much of the politics of international aviation has revolved around the use of the airspace. For all its expanse, the sky has definite limits for civil aviation since airlines require the safest and shortest routes to their destinations.
Prudence may dictate platitudes. Votes may counsel vagueness.
Lester Pearson, Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age
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Notes and References
J. Schenkman, International Civil Aviation Organization (Geneva: H. Studer, 1955) p. 376.
M. Milde, ‘Dispute Settlement in the Framework of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)’ in Studies in Air and Space Law (Koln: Carl Heymanns, 1979) p. 91.
Milde, op. cit., p. 93. The Indian position is outlined in S.K. Agra-wala, Aircraft, Hijacking and International Law (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1973) Chapter 10.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations (New York: Knopf, 1973) p. 425.
The area in question had been a matter of dispute since China in 1974 defeated a Vietnam naval force and reiterated its long standing claim over Hainan. (See Marwyn S. Samuels, Contest for the South China Sea (New York: Methuen, 1982).)
Andrew Wilson, ‘The Aegean Dispute’, Aldelphi Paper no. 155, London, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Winter 1979–1980, p. 7.
Thomas Buergenthal, Lawmaking in the International Civil Aviation Organization (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1969) p. 226.
Yves Beigbeder, ‘Le Rúle politique, administratif et opérationnel du Secrétaire Général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies’, International Review of Administrative Sciences, LI(4), 1985, p. 282.
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Sochor, E. (1991). International Conflicts and the Safety of Air Travel. In: The Politics of International Aviation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11347-7_7
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