Introduction: The Quest for Maritime Supremacy

Mapping the knowledge base for maritime health: introduction.

Priorities for improving maritime health, and hence the allocation of resources to them, should depend on estimates of the frequency and severity of health risks and on estimates of the effectiveness of the available interventions in reducing the impact of illness and injury. They need to address two questions: ‘what matters?’ (the risks) and ‘what works? (the interventions). Much current marit...

Antitrust and the Supremacy Clause

In the course of damning the market giant Standard Oil, the Supreme Court declared that the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act is to prevent "monopoly and the acts which produce the same result as monopoly." The Constitution's Supremacy Clause, in turn, requires preemption-that is, non-enforcement-of state laws that conflict with a federal statute. Put together, these propositions suggest tha...

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The role of the Triple islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa) in Iran’s Maritime supremacy in the Persian Gulf

For many coastal countries, maritime supremacy has always been a major concern of their grand strategies. The existence of islands is one of the most important means to acquisition of maritime supremacy in maritime territories. Iran, Due to its maritime position, has many islands in the Persian Gulf, the most important of which are the Triple  islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa). T...

The role of the Triple islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa) in Iran’s Maritime supremacy in the Persian Gulf

For many coastal countries, maritime supremacy has always been a major concern of their grand strategies. The existence of islands is one of the most important means to acquisition of maritime supremacy in maritime territories. Iran, Due to its maritime position, has many islands in the Persian Gulf, the most important of which are the Triple  islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa). T...