Geopolitics
Whose Sea
The economic zone, the nine-dash line, islands and rocks, and the seabed at the Pole
Montego Bay · the 2016 award · Article 121 · the Lomonosov Ridge · 4 chapters · 16 min read
A zone that is not territory, a line with nine dashes, the difference between an island and a rock, and a flag on the seabed that changed nothing.
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The Law of the Sea
- 01Rights Without SovereigntyOn the largest enclosure in history, and the gap it left on purpose.
- 02Nine Dashes and a TribunalOn a line drawn before the law, and a ruling that cannot be enforced and will not go away.
- 03Island or RockOn the sentence more ocean depends on than any other, and who wants it read strictly.
- 04The Race That Is a QueueOn a flag that changed nothing, and why the coldest dispute is the most orderly.