The Poseidon Project : The Struggle to Govern the World's Oceans / David Bosco

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-0-19-758291-6

EAN : 9780197582916

Classification Dewey : 341.45

Relation : The Poseidon project : the struggle to govern the world's oceans / David Bosco / New York : Oxford University Press

Résumé / Abstract : In The Poseidon Project, David Bosco tells the story of how rulers, merchants, navies, environmentalists, and activists have struggled to craft rules for the oceans. From the Dutch challenge to the Portuguese in the 17th century to the current turmoil in the South China Sea, it tracks the tension between efforts to control maritime space and the idea that the oceans should be unowned and open to all