Introduction: Regime Interaction in Ocean Governance

Abstract

This chapter introduces the background of the book, namely the Sustainable Ocean project and the research carried out therein, the workshop held in April 2018 and the aims of the book. This contribution then discusses the core concepts of the book, mainly regime interaction and ocean governance, highlights the different existing approaches and focus on how the authors of the different chapters have dealt with them. The chapter then offers some remarks on whether regime interaction in international law, and specifically in ocean governance, consists of a problem to be solved or of a phenomenon to be better understood so as to also (sometimes) be benefitted from.