Chatter: Freedom of the Seas, with David Bosco
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The Earth's oceans differ from its land areas in many ways, including the historically powerful norm of "freedom of the seas." David Priess hosted David Bosco, Executive Associate Dean and Professor at Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, for a discussion about the origins and core principles of the freedom of the seas concept, Hugo Grotius, the practice of maritime commerce from ancient times until now, the three mile "cannon-shot" rule of territorial waters, privateering, piracy, the role of shipwrecks in spurring international cooperation on maritime safety, the norm of major canals being open to all, undersea cables, the unraveling of the freedom of the seas doctrine in the 20th century, the post-World War II era of expanding ocean claims, exclusive economic zones, optimism about the future of ocean governance, David Bosco's book The Poseidon Project, and more.
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| 1:26.0 | Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode. This week, Professor David Bosco on Freedom of the Seas. |
| 1:45.0 | I think those three elements that you can't claim the oceans, that everyone has the freedom |
| 1:51.3 | to navigate and the freedom to exploit ocean resources. |
| 1:54.2 | That's the core of the Grosion ideal. And then to that we would add this notion that for there to really |
| 2:01.4 | be meaningful freedom of the seas somehow private violence has to be controlled. |
| 2:08.0 | In a sense this is one of humanity's first attempts to really grapple with this. You know, you shouldn't just be able to go pull minerals off the deep seabed. You've got to go to the International Seabed Authority, get permission, and then you need to pay some royalties. |
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