Libertatea navigației pe Oceanul Mondial: elemente ale istoriei unei preocupări strategice majore și penere a SUA
Freedom of navigation and the world’s oceans: historical elements of an US’ major and perennial strategic concern

Summary/Abstract: The article deals, using some illustrative details, with a perennial and major strategic goal of the decision-makers in Washington, D.C.: that of continuously maintaining and strongly consolidating freedom of navigation in different parts of the World Ocean. At this very moment, this major strategic goal is vividlyillustrated by the FONOPs (Freedom of Navigation Operations) in the South China Sea. But these current FONOPs are nothing else but a quite tiny chapter in a very long and astonishingly complex story, more than two centuries long, mixing some major political principles and an active search for accomplishing significant (and sometimes vital) elements of the U.S. national interest.

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