James Kraska

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James Kraska
Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Navy
Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, currently serving as Oceans Policy Adviser and Chief, International Negotiations Division, Joint Staff. CDR Kraska holds an appointment as a Guest Investigator at the Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he served as an Office of the Chief of Naval Research post-doctoral fellow in Naval Oceanography and National Security.

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"Lost at Sea"  — Kraska, James — Foreign Policy — May 16, 2012

The author argues that the Obama administration's recent strategic pivot towards Asia makes ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea more of a strategic necessity

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China
"Missing the Boat: Failure to join the Law of the Sea Convention harms U.S. interests"  — Kraska, James — Armed Forces Journal — April 01, 2009

Cmdr. James Kraska USN makes the conservative case for ratifying UNCLOS, arguing that the "treaty is the nation’s most effective means for resisting efforts by NGOs and others to diminish global freedom of the seas," and that only "a handful of influential conservatives are trashing the very treaty that best protects and promotes our interests." 

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"The Legal War behind the Impeccable Incident"  — Kraska, James — World Politics Review — March 16, 2009

With a weak but growing blue-water capability, China is carefully and deliberately promoting a vision that de-legitimizes the forward presence of the U.S. Navy in the region.  

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China, China
"High Seas Ditherers"  — Kraska, James — Foreign Policy — February 13, 2009

The author argues that conservatives who argue against the Law of the Sea Convention may inadvertently help their own worst enemies by preventing the U.S. from resisting efforts to shape international laws in ways inimical to U.S. national security interests.

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