America on the Ice. Antarctic Policy Issues

• Main Author: Klotz, Frank G.
• Other Authors: NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Government and Political Science; Ecology; *FOREIGN POLICY; *ARMS CONTROL; *CONSERVATION; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; LOGISTICS SUPPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SEALS(MAMMALS); MINERALS; TREATIES; NATURAL RESOURCES; ICE; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA259873; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA259873

Partial contents include: (1) Antarctica Before the Treaty, rival territorial claims--cold war dimension--international geophysical year-- conference on antarctica; (2) The Antarctic Treaty System, duration--scope--an arms control agreement--a claims settlement-a science compact--an administrative framework--recommendations--convention for the conservation of antarctic seals-- convention on the conservation of antarctic marine living resources; (3) Challenges to the antarctic Treaty System; antarctic resources--participation in antarctic policymaking--The sovereignty time bomb; (4) U.S. Interests in the Antarctic and Current U.S. Policy, and the U.S. Antarctic Program, scientific activities--antarctic stations--logistics support-managing the logistics program--maintaining and influential american presence in the years ahead.