Denise Russell. “Modern Piracy and Terrorism on the Sea” (pgs. 60-82), Who Rules the Waves? Piracy, Overfishing, and Mining the Oceans. Pluto Press, 2010 ‘Room for Debate: Sailing Beyond the Rule of Law,’ The New York Times, July 23, 2015 Paul Greenberg, “Fishermen Can Hook Polluters in Court” Steve Cotton, “Flags That Provide a Veil of Secrecy” Ning Yen, “The Seafood Industry Must Set the Standards” Adjoa Anyimadu, “Aggressive Local Court Action Can Curb Piracy” John Huggins, “Reporting, Accountability, and Prosecution” Mark Young, “Technology and Enforcement in Ports Can Be Effective” [MID-TERM EXAMINATION] Part II – Case Studies in Politics Week 7 – Maritime Territorial Disputes: the Arctic and the South China Sea The Law of the Sea Treaty contains provisions for dividing up the ocean into jurisdictional zones, including areas owned and/or controlled by coastal states. Unfortunately, the guidance for territorial demarcation has failed to resolve several regional disputes over ocean territory. This week, a single session will focus on contemporary maritime territorial disputes in two regional seas. The Arctic Ocean contains disputes over continental shelf claims and international straits, while the South China Sea contains disputes over the status of over 250 mostly uninhabited islands. The strategic, economic, and human implications of control over these territories will be examined so that students can understand the interests that drive policy and practice in these regions. Total pages: 55 Paul Berkman. “Geopolitics of Arctic Sea-Ice Minima.” The Brown Journal of World Affairs XIX, no. I (Fall/Winter 2012): 145–54. Michael Byers. “Introduction” (pgs. 1-10) and “Arctic Straits” (pgs. 128-142 only), International Law and the Arctic. Cambridge University Press (2013) Xavier Furtado, “International Law and the Dispute over the Spratly Islands: Whither UNCLOS?” Contemporary Southeast Asia 21, no. 3 (December 1999): 386-404 Robert Kaplan. “The Humanist Dilemma” (pgs. 5-21), Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific Order. Random House, 2014 Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield, “To Bolster Its Claims, China Plants Islands in Disputed Waters,” The New York Times (2014)
Week 8 – Oceanic Shipping and Submarine Cables This week’s sessions will encounter the ocean as a globalized space of networks and flows, and home to material infrastructures that literally tie together the global economy and facilitate global communications. The first session considers the role of transnational maritime shipping as a primary conduit of early globalization, and an essential feature of contemporary globalism. While maritime shipping primarily transmits goods, the undersea telecommunications networks explored in the second session are responsible for the circulation of information around the globe. The material architecture of these networks will be reviewed, and we will discuss their significance for both the global economy and the future of the Internet. Total pages: 95 Transnational Shipping: Antoine Fremont, “Maritime Shipping at the Crossroads of Economic and Environmental Challenges,” (139-148) Oceans: The New Frontier, 2011 Ian Urbina, “Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship,” The New York Times, July 17, 2015 Linda Qiu, “China’s Growth Fuels Boom in World Shipping Traffic,” National Geographic, November 27, 2014 Peter Gwin, “The Ship-Breakers,” National Geographic, May 2014 Submarine Telecommunications: Bernard S Finn and Daqing Yang. “Introduction” (pgs. 3-8) and “The Geopolitical Implications of Communication Under the Seas” (pgs. 257-278), Communications under the Seas. MIT Press, 2009 Nicole Starosielski. “Introduction” (pgs. 1-26) and “Cabled Depths” (pgs. 199-224), The Undersea Network. Duke University Press, 2015 Week 9 – Naval Rivalries: The Cold War and After This week students will approach the ocean from a military perspective. The interests (and funding) of the Department of Defense have had a significant impact on the content of international Law of the Sea and the history of oceanography. Class discussion will follow the Navy’s efforts to project power across and underneath the ocean, the role of military institutions in formulating the US position in international negotiations, and the mutually beneficial relationship developed between the Navy and oceanographers. Pages: 108