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Common Heritage or Common Burden? contains a comprehensive and
authoritative assessment of the US role in the negotiations on the
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and particularly in the
negotiations on one of the remaining commons, the ocean floor
beyond national jurisdiction. The author first examines the US view
of the lawfulness of deep seabed mining under international law. He
reviews the bureaucratic struggles, within the US Administration
and the Congress, concerning the options to be pursued at the
Conference; analyses the US position in the seabed negotiations
from 1974 to 1980; and casts a fresh look both on the Reagan
Administration's `policy review' of 1981-1982 which threatened the
Conference's outcome, and current US oceans policy which remains an
impediment to the Convention's early entry into force. The study
suggests that despite significant compromises negotiated between
the US and developing countries at the Conference up to 1980, the
emerging seabed regime was not as widely endorsed by US officials
as is generally assumed. Drawing on material collected from
interviews with many key negotiators, the study contributes to a
better understanding of domestic and international decision-making
procedures and the dynamics of international negotiations.
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