Norway & Soviet Union Barents Sea Dispute INTRODUCTION This research examines the

Most of the Barents Sea lies north of the Soviet land mass, as opposed to the Norwegian land mass. The issue of sovereignty is complicated, however; (1) by island groups along the northern edge of the Barents Sea, some of which are partsof Norway, and others of which are parts of the Soviet Union; (2) by rich resourcesboth fish and petroleumin the area; and (3) by the strategic importance of the area (from Murmansk, the Barents Sea provides primary access routes for the Soviet navy to the Atlantic Ocean, because that part of the Barents Sea north of the Kola Peninsula in the Soviet Union, and north of Norway is free from pack ice on a yeararound basis).

As Norway is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the dispute between that country and the Soviet

1 2Union with respect to the Barents Sea becomes embroiled in the eastwest controversy, whether or not that is the desire of either of the two countries mo

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d as a limited application of military power by a stronger state against a weaker state, in an effort to attain its goals with out the risks typically associated with fullscale military action. Coercive diplomacy holds many potential advantages to the stronger state capable of applying the concept effectively. If, as an example, the United States caused Libya to stop supporting terrorist activities (assuming for the moment that Libya indeed did support such activities) through the use of coercive diplomacy, it achieved a foreign policy goal. It also avoided greater risks to world order which would have been 8 associated with fullscale military activity, and it minimized its exposure as a bully nation (it is, indeed, no less a bully nation because it applied coercive diplomacy, as opposed to the use of greater military force; it simply minimized its exposure in this context). When coercive diplomacy does not work, however, the stronger state may weaken its position significantly through its use (Handel, 1981). Such was the case with the Israeli incursion into Lebanon, wherein pressures from other Arab states were effective in persuading the Lebanese gover
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