National ideology : rhetoric or reality? : An examination of the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

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dc.contributor.authorVerwolf, Dinah Corrieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T20:12:00Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T20:12:00Z
dc.date.copyright1986en_US
dc.date.issued1986
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines whether or not there is a significant corresĀ­pondence between the ideological principles adhered to by a nation and its subsequent behavior in issues of international significance. The thesis further attempts to determine if there i s a greater correspondence between ideology and behavior among some nations or blocks of nations, as opposed to others. To limit the scope of the study, five states were selected as representative of the ideologically-distinctive Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. Chosen to be representative of the Western Bloc were the United States, Canada and Britain. The nations selected to represent the Eastern Bloc were the USSR and Cuba. The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, which took place between 1973 and 1982, was selected as the data base for this study for the following reasons: The Law of the Sea Conference involved many issues of ideological as well as practical significance which are of some, if not major, importance to every nation in the world: Discussions over these issues (of which four were used for this study) continued for eight years and made it possible to distinguish consistent behavioral patterns from singular responses. Chapter One outlines the objectives of the thesis and defines the use of ideology as the medium for studying national behavior. Chapters Two and Three outline the key ideological principles of the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc respectively. These principles were used as the basis for determining what response would be expected by each nation towards each issue, if ideological disposition played a distinguishable role in shaping national behavior. The four Law of the Sea issues selected for this study are detailed in Chapter Four and include: a) the establishment of the International Seabed Authority ; b) the establishment and funding of the Enterprise as a supranational seabed mining company; c) the right of the Enterprise/ISA to demand and receive all technological and military information related to the oceans, from all nations; and d) the obligation of all nations/ companies involved in seabed mining to share resulting revenue. Chapters Five and Six detail what responses were expected from each Bloc if ideology were a significant behavioral determinant and then examines the actual position of each nation toward each issue. The primary source for each state's position are the official records of UNCLOS III. Chapter Seven summarizes the findings, compares the expectations with the responses and postulates various conclusions which can be drawn given the results of the comparison.
dc.format.extent193 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/19995
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleNational ideology : rhetoric or reality? : An examination of the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Seaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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