The Unraveling
Abstract The world wars of the 20th century saw the collapse of pre-war rules designed to protect merchant shipping from interference. In both wars, combatants engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare and imposed vast ocean exclusion zones, leading to unprecedented interference with ocean commerce....
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780190265649.003.0004 2024-06-23T07:50:21+00:00 The Unraveling (1914–1945) Bosco, David 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265649.003.0004 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/57933718/oso-9780190265649-chapter-4.pdf en eng Oxford University PressNew York The Poseidon Project page 69-90 ISBN 0190265647 9780190265649 9780197582916 book-chapter 2022 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265649.003.0004 2024-06-04T06:13:03Z Abstract The world wars of the 20th century saw the collapse of pre-war rules designed to protect merchant shipping from interference. In both wars, combatants engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare and imposed vast ocean exclusion zones, leading to unprecedented interference with ocean commerce. After World War I, the United States began to supplant Britain as the leading naval power, and it feuded with Britain over maritime rights. Other developments in the interwar period included significant state-sponsored ocean research, including activity by Germany in the Atlantic and the Soviets in the Arctic. Maritime commerce was buffeted by the shocks of the world wars. Eager to trim costs, US shipping companies experimented with “flags of convenience” to avoid new national safety and labor regulations. The question of the breadth of the territorial sea remained unresolved, as governments bickered about the appropriate outer limit of sovereign control. Book Part Arctic Oxford University Press Arctic 69 90 |
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Abstract The world wars of the 20th century saw the collapse of pre-war rules designed to protect merchant shipping from interference. In both wars, combatants engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare and imposed vast ocean exclusion zones, leading to unprecedented interference with ocean commerce. After World War I, the United States began to supplant Britain as the leading naval power, and it feuded with Britain over maritime rights. Other developments in the interwar period included significant state-sponsored ocean research, including activity by Germany in the Atlantic and the Soviets in the Arctic. Maritime commerce was buffeted by the shocks of the world wars. Eager to trim costs, US shipping companies experimented with “flags of convenience” to avoid new national safety and labor regulations. The question of the breadth of the territorial sea remained unresolved, as governments bickered about the appropriate outer limit of sovereign control. |
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