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The Expanding Context of European and Mediterranean Security: A Joint Project Between the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CeMiSS)
July 1, 2007
CNA and the Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CeMiSS), the analytical group within the Italian equivalent of the U.S. National Defense University (CASD), agreed to conduct a joint project in 2006 on European and American views of the security situation in Europe, with particular regard for the situation around the Mediterranean Sea. The CeMiSS leader of the project, contributed a paper on Italian foreign policy. Daniel Whiteneck compared European and American views on the security situation. H. H. Gaffney discussed hard and soft power, noting that it represents a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Thaddeus Moyseowicz covered the experience and future of multilateral organizations in the Mediterranean context, and Mark Rosen discussed the questions of international regulation of the sea spaces.
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The Maritime Economic Concerns of Russia: Is it Gaining the Interests of a Coastal State?
March 1, 1993
This research memorandum is one in a series of papers stemming from CNA's Future Russian Navy project, which was requested by the Director of Naval Intelligence. In this paper, we examine the evolving maritime interests of the former Soviet Union and those of Russia, its principal heir. Until the 1960s, the Soviet Union acted as a coastal state, protecting its own territorial waters. It then built up its forces and emerged as a significant global maritime power in the late 1960s. Now Russia is returning to a coastal focus. We look at the reasons for this latest shift in focus -- namely, problems in Russia's oil and fishing industries -- and the way in which the Russian Navy's missions will likely change to reflect the nation's new economic imperatives.
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ANTICIPATING SOVIET BEHAVIOR AT THE THIRD U.N. LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE: USSR POSITIONS AND DILEMMAS
February 1, 1981
This paper assesses known probable Soviet positions on a number of major substantive ocean law issues and examines problems the Soviet Union will face in developing its bargaining strategy for the UN conference.
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FORECASTING OUTCOMES OF MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, VOLUME I, GUIDE FOR USERS
December 1, 1978
The present research contribution is a companion publication to CNA Research Contribution 291, which describes the methodology developed and used by the Law of the Sea Study to forecast the outcomes of multilateral negotiations on issues in law of the sea. All of the mathematical models and most of the techniques were programmed for the computer, and it is this system of computer programs that is treated in this research contribution. Volume I directs the prospective user in their execution. Volume II describes their logic and dimensioned variables for the programmer and specifies the changes that must be made throughout the system when any program is changed.
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INFORMATION PROCESSING AND OUTCOME FORECASTING FOR MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS: TESTING ONE APPROACH
July 1, 1977

This paper evaluates a data base management system for multilateral negotiations. The paper principally reports the results of two tests to determine the reliability of the project's thematic content analysis and policy-scaling techniques.

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LEGAL ISSUES IN PROTECTING OFFSHORE STRUCTURES
August 1, 1976
This paper examines what legal authority exists under which the Federal government could provide for the security and defense of structures built off the coasts of the United States for economic purposes. The legal jurisdiction of the U.S. is examined in terms of regulation, criminal law enforcement, and defense. Potential changes in U.S. authority resulting from the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference are also briefly discussed.
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A LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE - WHO NEEDS IT?
July 1, 1974
In taking stock of the negotiations of the law of the sea, the usefulness and productiveness of the talks is being mitigated by actions taken in subcommittees and the lack of a perceptive set of tactical policies.
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