Recent Publications
"The Deep Blue Highway," New York Times, 2 January 2007, op-ed by John Curtis Perry, Scott Borgerson, and Rockford Weitz
"Navigating the Swirling Currents of Change," Straits Times (Singapore), 10 July 2006, op-ed by Rockford Weitz, John Curtis Perry, and Scott Borgerson
"Breaking the Ice Up North," New York Times, 19 October 2005, op-ed by Scott Borgerson
Recent Studies/Papers
Of Sea and Shore - the American Global Port City's Internationalist Approach to U.S. Foreign Policy, Doctoral Dissertation by Scott Borgerson - [download the abstract] [full copy available at Ginn Library, Fletcher School]
Has a Non-State Armed Group Conducted a Revolution in Military Affairs? A Case Study of al Qaeda, MALD Thesis by Jeremy Harrington - [download the paper]
LNG Facilities in Urban Areas: A Security Risk Management Analysis for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island
The Federal Reserve Bank of U.S. study "The U.S. as a Coastal Nation"
A World Ocean Mediterranean, MALD Thesis by Scott Borgerson - [download the paper]
Working Papers
Marine Productivity: Explaining Geographic Patterns of Economic Development, by Caleb McClennen - [download the paper]
Terror in the Straits of Malacca, by Lyn Debevoise - [download the paper]
Climate Change in the Arctic and its Implications for U.S. National Security, by Beth Chalecki - [download the paper]
Strategic Oceanic Chokepoints: Are They Still Important?, by Rockford Weitz - [download the paper]
Recent Student Paper Topics
- America Under Attack: U.S. Coast Guard History and Homeland Defense
- The Art of Landfinding in Oceanic Polynesian Navigation
- “Freedom of the Seas:” An Historical Overview of Admiralty Law
- Rachel Carson: Elements of Life in Endless Chains
- The Loss of HMS INVINCIBLE, 1916
- The X-Craft Raid: Crippling the TIRPITZ
- Jacky Fisher: Admiral Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
- Responses to “Moby Dick”
- The Role of the Japanese Submarine Force in the Pacific War
- The Role of the Lighthouse in Cultural History
- Arctic Ecology and the Conservation Movement
- East Africa and the Oceanic Impulse: The Case of Zanzibar
- Technology and the Imperial Russian Navy: A Study in Failure
- Silver: The First Global Commodity
- Oceanic Cuisines: Curry and East Asia
- The Ocean as Source of Renewable Energy
- The Spratly Islands and the South China Conflict
- Is there a Market for Flags of Convenience?
- Governing the Coastal Zone: Applying the Common Heritage of Mankind
- Principle to Areas under National Control