Although published in 1991, this, the second of the Thessaloniki Thesaurus Acroasium series of books that is devoted to the law of the sea, contains lectures and student papers from the 1986 Session of the Institute. As a result, some of the material pertaining to security issues is long out of date, notably the lecture paper of Dr Lynbom Udrova, which is vintage pre-glasnost Soviet material. Most of the rest, however, remains pertinent today.

The lecture papers achieve a reasonable balance between law of the sea issues in general and the claimed emphasis on Mediterranean issues. The subject-matter spans environmental, security, laws of war, dispute-settlement, delimitation, navigational and other aspects of the subject. As can be expected for a lecture course, a number of the papers are fairly standard, rather descriptive accounts, but a few go beyond this and provide some interesting insights. Indeed, a degree of overlap in the treatment of several subjects renders one or two of the less advanced papers strictly redundant. Worthy of particular attention are the papers by: Scovazzi (on baselines); Lowe (on security aspects); Paolillo (on dispute-settlement); Ronzitti (on naval warfare); and Vukas (on navigation).