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Three years ago, in the bloody endgame of the Sri Lankan government’s war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, some 300,000 civilians became trapped between the advancing army and the last LTTE fighters in what has been called “the cage” – a tiny strip of land, not much larger than New York City’s Central Park, between
sea
and lagoon in the northeast of the country.
Europe cannot afford to be an island of relative stability in a
sea
of chaos.
Otherwise, the world will suffer irreversible damage in the form of rising
sea
levels, loss of biodiversity, and deterioration of both land and marine ecosystems, including the potential extinction of the world’s coral reefs.
Shipping goods overland from China to Europe is still twice as expensive as trade by
sea.
American strategy, in contrast, has long favored the geopolitical insights of the nineteenth-century admiral Alfred Mahan, who emphasized
sea
power and the rimlands.
When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and
sea
levels.
Large countries like the US, Russia, Britain, France, and China have greater capacity than other states and non-state actors to control the sea, air, or space, but it makes little sense to speak of dominance in cyberspace.
In a perverse way, the world got its way, because the vehicle exploded a minute after takeoff, its debris falling harmlessly into the
sea.
In order to ensure this, policymakers must give priority to the efficiency criterion and bear in mind the environmental costs of both land and
sea
transport.
The Mediterranean played a crucial role in the first Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, was the
sea
of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, and was the center of the world first for the Arabs and Barbarians, and later for the Ottomans and the Spanish.
In 1801, with Congress absent from the capital, Jefferson took matters into his own hands, ordering a new fleet of frigates to
sea
to protect merchant shipping.
Indeed, as the
sea
reared up to ravage the country’s coast on March 11, 2011, more than 90% of the population in the affected areas had already fled to safety.
The disdain felt by de Gaulle, a man of the north, for the emotional settlers across the
sea
had deepened.
The ocean’s health is now largely dependent upon lowering CO2 emissions within the next few decades, before runaway ocean acidification occurs and
sea
levels change radically.
Protected by a “security wall” on one side and the
sea
on the other, Israeli citizens may enjoy the feeling of living on an artificial island from which they can connect directly to the areas of modernity and prosperity in Asia and the West.
Yet they are surrounded by a
sea
of angry and frustrated people, and cannot escape the logic of the region they inhabit.
Many of the world’s largest cities, built on seacoasts and rivers, face the threat of rising
sea
levels and intensifying storms.
Convinced that the Japanese would attack from the sea, the British defenses were encased in impenetrable concrete bunkers, with fixed artillery that could fire only to the south.
In September, it conducted its largest military exercise in two decades, with its air, sea, and large ground forces spending two weeks simulating conflict on both the Syrian and Lebanese fronts.
So perhaps John Donne was partly right: if Putin is an island, he is one in a
sea
of millions of islands.
To Thailand’s east, Vietnam is the latest Asian country to feel pinched by China’s policy of creating facts on the ground, or in this case at sea, to enhance its sovereignty claims on disputed territory.
In his “burning platform” memo, Elop compared Nokia to a man on a burning offshore oilrig, facing a fiery death or an uncertain leap into the frigid
sea.
Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, unlike natural islands, China’s constructed islands – which were built on top of natural features that did not originally rise above the water at high tide – do not have sovereignty over 12 nautical miles of surrounding
sea.
They know what to buy.”Facebook posts showed them what kinds of tents to purchase, which routes to take, and what tactics to implement, such as slashing the rubber boats they arrived in to avoid being pushed back out to
sea
by Greek officials.
China believes that it has a legitimate right to increase its military power, given its need to protect its expanding economic interests, which include secure
sea
routes for the transport of energy and other goods.
How much of the planet can we help by dealing with rising
sea
levels?
The Korean peninsula, Taiwan, and the South China Sea’s islands and
sea
lanes are all issues of potential dispute between the US and China.
China is modernizing its military and intends to become a significant
sea
power, prompting many China observers to call for greater transparency.
But the alarmists neglect to mention that
sea
levels rose through the twentieth century by 10-25 centimeters.
Europe could not have united in peace and democracy without that
sea
change.
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