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Law of the Seas

Ending America's 'Sea Blindness'

Butch Bracknell & James Kraska | December 06, 2010
 USNS Tippecanoe refuels Japan Flotilla ships Ikazuchi and Kongo during a joint exercise in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 5, 2010.

 The United States suffers from a kind of "sea blindness" — an inability to appreciate the central role the oceans and naval power have played in securing our strategic security and economic prosperity. One symptom of this bipartisan malady has been that the country is failing to take an active role in shaping the world order of the oceans to promote our national interest.

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Law & the Lone Superpower: Rebuilding a Transatlantic Consensus on International Law

April 17, 2007
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Throughout 2006, allegations of U.S. involvement in “renditions” of suspected terrorists from Europe to prisons in Afghanistan and elsewher­e reverberated around European capitals. Charges that the United States had established secret prisons in some European countries raised the temperature even further.

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