@article{oai:nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004076,
 author = {Compel, Radomir},
 journal = {多文化社会研究, Journal of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Human society has viewed marine space as an empty, deep and useless mass of water for most of its recorded past. With the arrival of the modern nation-state came an institutionalization of the relationship between society and the sea, but in a way radically distinct from that with land. In this paper, I suggest that in political science, this historical trend of seeing human society as land-based and the sea as irrelevant is over. The sea is irreversibly becoming more intertwined with our lives. There are two mechanisms which ensure increasing importance of the sea to our society. The first one is territorialization of the sea, manifested by the introduction of the EEZ and other institutions challenging the traditional understanding of the sea in modern international law. The other one is liquefaction of territorial sovereignty as a result of globalization. Increasing movement of information, goods, people, externalities, and identities across boundaries erode territorial sovereignty beyond its traditional meaning. The sea has had a major role in promoting such erosion.
New potential offered by marine space is a new frontier for human society, which may lead to entirely new ways of economic development. They also pose new challenges, and human society will have to devise more effective ways to address negative effects of the promising 'Blue Growth.', 多文化社会研究, 1, pp.125-140; 2015},
 pages = {125--140},
 title = {The Dynamics of the Political Dimensions of Marine Space},
 volume = {1},
 year = {2015}
}