Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction: An Outline of the Problems | p. 1 |
The Build-up to UNCLOS, Pardo's Common Heritage Proposal, and the United States View on the Lawfulness of Deep Sea-bed Mining | |
The build-up to UNCLOS | p. 18 |
Pardo's Common Heritage Proposal | p. 22 |
The United States view on the lawfulness of deep sea-bed mining | p. 30 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 42 |
Dilemmas of United States Domestic Sea-bed Politics | |
The line-up of actors and their roles | p. 44 |
Actors at executive branch level | p. 44 |
The input of Congress | p. 51 |
The mining industry's role | p. 55 |
The United States delegation to UNCLOS | p. 59 |
The role of non-governmental organizations | p. 63 |
The role of the media | p. 67 |
The Interagency Task Force on the Law of the Sea and the Law of the Sea Advisory Committee | p. 69 |
The Interagency Task Force | p. 69 |
The Law of the Sea Advisory Committee | p. 76 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 77 |
Towards Domestic Sea-bed Legislation | |
Rationale for United States sea-bed legislation | p. 80 |
Legislative activities, 1971-1976 | p. 83 |
Towards government support for sea-bed legislation | p. 86 |
Major issues in sea-bed legislation, 1977-1978 | p. 88 |
Activities in the 96th Congress, 1979-1980 | p. 94 |
The Group of 77's response to United States sea-bed legislation | p. 99 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 101 |
The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS--Part One: the Negotiation of the System of Exploitation | |
Introductory remarks | p. 103 |
Possible regulatory mechanisms for deep sea-bed mining | p. 103 |
The 'precedential implications' of the sea-bed negotiations and the background of the New International Economic Order | p. 105 |
Conference organization and procedures | p. 109 |
The negotiation of the system of exploitation | p. 115 |
UNCLOS and the 'package deal' | p. 116 |
The sea-bed negotiations in 1974 | p. 118 |
The negotiation of the Informal Single Negotiating Text | p. 121 |
The parallel system and the negotiation of the Revised Single Negotiating Text | p. 124 |
Turning back the clock? The Informal Composite Negotiating Text of 1977 | p. 131 |
'Walking back the Informal Composite Negotiating Text': The negotiations in 1978 | p. 139 |
The negotiations in 1979 and 1980 | p. 142 |
The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS--Part Two | |
The negotiation of the financial terms of contract | p. 148 |
The technology transfer issue | p. 160 |
The issue of preparatory investment protection | p. 169 |
The structure of the International Sea-bed Authority | p. 176 |
The United States Position in Committee One at UNCLOS--Part Three: The Production Policy Debate | |
The impact of sea-bed mining on the markets of nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese | p. 188 |
The production policy debate, 1974-1977 | p. 191 |
The production policy debate, 1978-1981 | p. 197 |
Other potential mechanisms to assist land-based producers | p. 202 |
The 'strategic importance' of deep sea-bed mining | p. 204 |
Summary and conclusion, chapters 4-6 | p. 211 |
The Reagan Administration's Policy Review | |
The build-up to the review | p. 214 |
The announcement of the review | p. 222 |
The spring 1981 session and the first stages of the review | p. 228 |
The summer 1981 session of the conference | p. 234 |
The completion of the review and the build-up to the last session | p. 240 |
Negotiations at the final session | p. 243 |
The final stage of the conference and the vote | p. 249 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 257 |
The Reagan Administration's Law of the Sea Policy, 1982-1987 | |
Background to the 1983 Reagan proclamation of an Exclusive Economic Zone and the Ocean Policy Statement | p. 261 |
The status of the Convention's non sea-bed provisions | p. 264 |
The growing resource interest in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone | p. 274 |
United States attempts to establish an alternative regime for deep sea-bed mining | p. 277 |
United States attitudes towards the work of PrepCom | p. 288 |
Summary and conclusion | p. 304 |
Conclusion and Outlook | p. 307 |
Names of Persons Interviewed | p. 319 |
Exploration Licences Issued by United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Deep Sea-bed Hard Mineral Resources Act | p. 327 |
Bibliography | p. 329 |
Index | p. 359 |
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