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121639
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Preservation and protection of coastal ecology and the marine environment are the most significant challenges before the world community. The UN Convention on the Law of Sea, 1982 has made extensive provisions for the protection and preservation of the marine environment. The Constitution of India is probably first in the world that makes provision for the preservation and protection of the environment. The Ministry of Environment and Forests undertook an exercise to issue the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991 to preserve, protect and promote coastal ecology. Furthermore, in a number of decisions, the Supreme Court has made effective observations for the proper preservation, protection and promotion of coastal ecology and the marine environment. The present paper highlights the problem of global warming, coastal ecology and the marine environment. Coastal States have a special interest in protecting and preserving their coastlines. Due to unique peculiar characteristics, the coastal zone is a meeting point for land, sea and inland waters. Coastal zones have played significant role in the development of culture and civilizations. It is the duty of the coastal States to preserve and protect coastal ecology and the marine environment.
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121640
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Since the commencement of the new millennium, the increased focus on the modernisation of the Chinese navy as part of the overall Defence Forces modernisation has been a much-debated subject globally. While the advancements in the capacity and the capabilities of the Chinese Navy are quite visible, obvious and of vital importance, the strength of the naval forces alone does not and cannot ensure the rise of a nation to great power status. The sea has to be comprehensively understood and then explored as a medium of immense economic, scientific, political, social and military potential, so as to be a contributory factor in building of the Comprehensive National Power. Seen from this perspective, the modernisation of the Chinese Navy forms but only a subset in the exploitation of the greater maritime domain. The capabilities of the Chinese Navy - the sword arm of the maritime domain - can hence be best leveraged in support of the national aims and objectives if there are Chinese influences, interests and stakes in the greater maritime domain. This paper seeks to investigate the various multi-faceted developments in the larger maritime environment, generally focusing on the Chinese seaboard, though not limited in any manner to the regional level only. With its civilian maritime activities being indicative of maritime presence in all the three Oceans including in the Arctic and the Antarctic, it may well be assumed that Beijing has understood the "Mantra" towards achieving great power status. And the Global community is possibly witness to the implementation of this Chinese path-breaking strategy.
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121641
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India and Australia have assumed a greater role in international affairs, emerging as regional powers with great power potential. Changes in the international environment, particularly the rise of China as a common source of concern and growing economic relations between the two countries in an era of increasingly complex interdependence, have provided an impulse for the two countries to enhance their bilateral ties. Part of that includes developing a robust maritime capability that can project force across blue water as well as on land, and which works in concert with allied maritime forces in assuring the defence of common interests. The paper provides an overview of the Indian-Australian relationship, focusing the analysis on India's changing maritime outlook, Australia's strategic priorities and a forecast of the possibilities for their developing a strategic partnership in the Indo-Pacific region.
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121642
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2013.
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The inadequacy of the legal regime to regulate and protect the fragile marine ecosystem is brought forth by recent incidents (e.g. Montara, Australia; Deepwater Horizon, USA) involving deep offshore oil rigs. When the pollution is massive in scale, who pays for the damages? In different regions, fragmented regional arrangements are available to resolve this problem but that is not the answer. Efforts are being made to address this problem internationally. Until the time an internationally acceptable solution for this problem is found, the ongoing spate of unregulated offshore exploration and production (E&P) activates in Bay of Bengal is a cause for concern to India and its neighbours.
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121643
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121644
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2013.
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The US defence industry has been the leading manufacturer and exporter of the major weapons systems of the world. In the post-Cold War era, most of the global defence industries, including the US defence industry, are looking towards India as an outsourcing hub for the technological development as well as markets. The current international security and threat perceptions, the defence industry trends and challenges, the convergence of geo-economic and geo-strategic interests between India and the US have strengthened the defence industry collaborations between them. The confidence and the trust that have been built in recent years between the US and India in the overall bilateral relationship have facilitated the strategic/security partnership in which the defence industry ties would be a key component of the ongoing "US-India strategic partnership."
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