International Governance of the Caspian Sea Legal Regime: Interdisciplinary Approach to Analysis (Springer Water)

This book analyses and evaluates the political, legal, negotiating and scientific parameters, which determined and/or influenced the course of international governance and the formation of the new conventional regime of the Caspian Sea (2018).Five littoral states managed to overcome complete disagreement and achieve the establishment of peaceful relations for successful international cooperation through multilateral negotiations in multidimensional geopolitical conditions (period 1991-2018) in the context of the redistribution of natural wealth, mainly energy resources, of particular geoeconomic and geostrategic importance.The book offers a different, interdisciplinary perspective on a widely discussed topic.A new scientific geographical term, "residual sea," is proposed especially for the Caspian, which underlines the natural character of this body of water without the legal implications of a "sea".For the first time, a systematic analysis of the entire negotiation process for the leg