{"id":361343,"date":"2010-02-24T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11448"},"modified":"2010-02-24T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:45:34","slug":"commercial-whaling-makes-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361343","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Whaling Makes a Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how much effort has been expended in countries like Japan and Australia to argue about whaling. \u00a0It is fascinating from say, a realist perspective, since it is hard to imagine that either side has any real meaningful national interest. \u00a0And as far as I can tell, Australia&#8217;s government is acting on essentially moral grounds, which is er, unusual to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is ready for them, though. \u00a0In fact, they have apparently maneuvered the International Whaling Commission to <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article7037220.ece\">consider lifting the ban on commercial whaling.<\/a> They may even have the votes. And if they don&#8217;t, it is not clear to me why Japan could not simply withdraw from the IWC and start commercial whaling. \u00a0The International Whaling Convention (see <a  href=\"http:\/\/iwcoffice.org\/commission\/convention.htm#convention\">Article XI<\/a>) certainly doesn&#8217;t prevent a withdrawal and I am not aware of what other legal obligations regulate whaling in international waters. \u00a0The question for Australia, then, is whether it is worth trading the continuation of the IWC regime for the acceptance of commercial whaling. \u00a0This seems problematic as a matter of domestic Australian politics, although it seems like a fair compromise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/9jJjO5kMPuA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku It is amazing how much effort has been expended in countries like Japan and Australia to argue about whaling. \u00a0It is fascinating from say, a realist perspective, since it is hard to imagine that either side has any real meaningful national interest. \u00a0And as far as I can tell, Australia&#8217;s government is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}