Protecting and Enhancing American Oceans Leadership—Managing Change in a Thawing Arctic and Conflict in the South and East China Seas as Critical Examples

Abstract This Chapter explores how America’s non-accession to UNCLOS has damaged its traditional leadership in oceans matters. At least since World War II, the United States, with the largest navy and the largest economy in the world, and bordering three oceans, has been a leader in oceans policy ma...

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Main Author: Moore, John Norton
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Oxford University PressNew York 2023
Subjects:
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Law of the Sea
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626962.003.0007
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780197626962.003.0007 2024-06-23T07:50:03+00:00 Protecting and Enhancing American Oceans Leadership—Managing Change in a Thawing Arctic and Conflict in the South and East China Seas as Critical Examples Moore, John Norton 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626962.003.0007 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/57997160/oso-9780197626962-chapter-7.pdf en eng Oxford University PressNew York The Struggle for Law in the Oceans page 57-96 ISBN 0197626963 9780197626962 9780197626993 book-chapter 2023 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197626962.003.0007 2024-06-04T06:09:35Z Abstract This Chapter explores how America’s non-accession to UNCLOS has damaged its traditional leadership in oceans matters. At least since World War II, the United States, with the largest navy and the largest economy in the world, and bordering three oceans, has been a leader in oceans policy matters. But to the delight of its enemies and the consternation of its friends, American oceans leadership has been significantly harmed by its absence from the Law of the Sea Convention. America has not been able to participate in the new oceans institutions created by UNCLOS, it has been relegated to second class citizenship as a mere observer in the annual UNCLOS Meeting of States Parties, it has reduced effectiveness in dealing with international negotiations affecting the oceans, such as the ongoing BBNJ negotiations, and American absence has hampered and delayed American industry and government from actively engaging oceans opportunities and challenges. As examples of the costs for American leadership from non-adherence this chapter examines in separate sections the important issues presented by a thawing Arctic Ocean, as well as conflict in the South and East China Seas. Book Part Arctic Arctic Ocean Law of the Sea Oxford University Press Arctic Arctic Ocean 57 C7N82
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description Abstract This Chapter explores how America’s non-accession to UNCLOS has damaged its traditional leadership in oceans matters. At least since World War II, the United States, with the largest navy and the largest economy in the world, and bordering three oceans, has been a leader in oceans policy matters. But to the delight of its enemies and the consternation of its friends, American oceans leadership has been significantly harmed by its absence from the Law of the Sea Convention. America has not been able to participate in the new oceans institutions created by UNCLOS, it has been relegated to second class citizenship as a mere observer in the annual UNCLOS Meeting of States Parties, it has reduced effectiveness in dealing with international negotiations affecting the oceans, such as the ongoing BBNJ negotiations, and American absence has hampered and delayed American industry and government from actively engaging oceans opportunities and challenges. As examples of the costs for American leadership from non-adherence this chapter examines in separate sections the important issues presented by a thawing Arctic Ocean, as well as conflict in the South and East China Seas.
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