Contents: Attributes of Parliamentary Diplomacy; Sovereign Equality; Large Number of Participants; Large Number of Issues; Group Behavior; Interaction and Bargaining; Decisions by Formal Collective Processes; Public Negotiations; Institutionalization through a Continuing Organization; and Technically Complex Subject Matter.
The known probable Soviet positions on a number of major substantive ocean law issues are assessed. Some serious problems the Soviet Union will face in developing its bargaining strategy for the UN conference are examined.
The report discusses some fundamental aspects of politics, outlines the nature of the world political system and its relationship to ecological problems, and points up a number of politically derived problems in bargaining on ecological questions.
The report discusses the state of negotiations on the law of the sea. It is concerned with the usefulness of the discussions in the UN Seabed Committee (constituted as the preparatory committee of the Law of the Sea Conference) not only on the question of whether there will be sufficient progress to hold a plenary Law of the Sea Conference in 1973 but also on the question of what substantive ...
On the international scene, developing states with few scientists and little scientific infrastructure seem especially attracted to the position in the debate in the United Nations General Assembly and its Committe on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-Bed. The less developed states believe that scientific discoveries made by scientists from the more developed states may be used for a variety of selfish and unselfish purposes, at the choice of the ...
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