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Main Author: Camprubí, Lino
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Published: Zenodo 2020
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa020
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contents <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>The article’s main goal is thus analyzing the scientific and technological emergence of depth and determining its role in the legal, military, and environmental retooling of the Mediterranean Sea. The first section discusses technologies of depth and volume and examines their scientific and legal impli- cations in the Mediterranean. Specifically, I seek to link the legal fiction of con- sidering continental shelves as territory to scientific representations of the ocean bottom. I then turn to the military and legal significance of Mediterranean straits for the United States, looking particularly at the role of volumetric geo- politics in negotiations around the Strait of Gibraltar in the third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The third section describes the shift from anti-submarine surveillance to environmental monitor- ing, investigating the role of military technologies in configuring scientific epis- temologies. The article is organized thematically rather than chronologically. While all sections run deep in time, the Cold War sets the stage for the most dramatic developments regarding science, law, and war in the Mediterranean Sea. The conclusion points to some of the ways in which tackling the three- dimensional spatial retooling of the Mediterranean can shed light onto the cur- rent building of a new European border.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>
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spellingShingle 'No Longer an American Lake': Depth and Geopolitics in the Mediterranean, Diplomatic History
Camprubí, Lino
<div> <div> <div> <div> <p>The article’s main goal is thus analyzing the scientific and technological emergence of depth and determining its role in the legal, military, and environmental retooling of the Mediterranean Sea. The first section discusses technologies of depth and volume and examines their scientific and legal impli- cations in the Mediterranean. Specifically, I seek to link the legal fiction of con- sidering continental shelves as territory to scientific representations of the ocean bottom. I then turn to the military and legal significance of Mediterranean straits for the United States, looking particularly at the role of volumetric geo- politics in negotiations around the Strait of Gibraltar in the third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The third section describes the shift from anti-submarine surveillance to environmental monitor- ing, investigating the role of military technologies in configuring scientific epis- temologies. The article is organized thematically rather than chronologically. While all sections run deep in time, the Cold War sets the stage for the most dramatic developments regarding science, law, and war in the Mediterranean Sea. The conclusion points to some of the ways in which tackling the three- dimensional spatial retooling of the Mediterranean can shed light onto the cur- rent building of a new European border.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div>
title 'No Longer an American Lake': Depth and Geopolitics in the Mediterranean, Diplomatic History
url https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa020