Jan Osterreicher Author
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Security consequences of deep-sea miming
CEVRO Institute Jungmannova, Prague 1, Czech Republic
Prof Jan Osterreicher M, Studied in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Currently working in the CEVRO Institute Jungmannova, Prague 1, Czech Republic, Research interests are International Security, National Security. International experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.
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Author(s): Daniel Machytka and Jan Osterreicher
The paper recognizes the ocean floor and were resources hidden beneath world oceans as the next frontier for mankind's expansion. We expect that the 21st century will be governed not by deep space exploration and planetary colonization but rather by conflicts on High Seas and territorial disputes waged over deep-sea mining rights and over Exclusives Economic Zones of intervening coastal state. As our history teaches us, the situation can escalate even further. It is only a matter of time when nations without easy access to such resources will demand a new territorial redistribution of the current World. Global actors in the 21st century will first look at the vastness of the global oceans as their new frontier to conquer and divide it. In such a world, we predict that this geopoliti... view moreĀ»