By Marie Williams

Mark Nevitt, Cmdr., JAGC (Ret.), breaks down the 1936 Montreux Convention and its wartime importance – from a lawyer’s perspective. Mark is Associate Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and a former tactical jet aviator and legal advisor to U.S. Sixth Fleet.

Download Sea Control 339 – The Montreux Convention with Mark Nevitt

Links

1. The 1936 Montreux Convention.
2. “A Constitution for the Oceans.” Remarks by Tommy Koh, President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
3. “The Russia-Ukraine Conflict, the Black Sea, and the Montreux Convention,” by Mark Nevitt, Just Security, February 28, 2022.
4. “The Operational and Legal Risks of a No-Fly Zone over Ukrainian Skies,” by Mark Nevitt, Just Security, March 10, 2022.

Marie Williams is Co-host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Marie Williams.

By Marie Williams

Lt. Colonel Laura Keenan joins the program to discuss her Strategy Bridge #WritingContest2021 prize-winning article, “The Lion and The Mouse: The Need for Greater U.S. Focus in the Pacific Islands,” and her strategy for the United States to build meaningful partner capacity in the Pacific Island Countries.

Download Sea Control 310 – The Lion & The Mouse with LTC Laura Keenan

Links

1. Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. In the South Pacific War Zone (1943).
2. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform. Kiribati.
3. “Soft Power,” by Joseph S. Nye, Foreign Policy, No. 80, Autumn, 1990.
4. The Climate Reality Project.
5. U.S. House of Representatives. The Strategic Importance of the Pacific Islands.
6. U.S. Department of Defense. DOD Climate Assessment Tool (DCAT).
7. U.S. Department of Defense. Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request.
8. “The Pacific Deterrence Initiative: Peace through Strength in the Indo-Pacific,” by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. Jack Reed, War on the Rocks, May 28, 2020.
9. Secretary Hillary Clinton. “Remarks at the Pacific Islands Forum Post-Forum Dialogue.” August 31, 2012.

Marie Williams is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.