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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Events during the first decade of the new millennium have contradicted scholarly predictions made in the 1990s about the declining relevance of the sovereign territorial state in international affairs. The state remains the proper primary focus of attention for scholars of international relations because territory remains the ineluctable and ultimate basis for power in the international system. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, states have claimed enormous new territories that have added to the power resources of coastal states. This realist analysis contributes to identification of the likely locations of future interstate wars and a major objective of strategic planners.
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