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Sam Bateman
Dr Sam Bateman retired from the RAN as a Commodore and is now a Professorial Research Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong in Australia, and a Senior Fellow in the Maritime Security Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
His naval service included four ship commands, ranging from a patrol boat to guided-missile destroyer. He was awarded his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2001 for a dissertation on 'The Strategic and Political Aspects of the Law of the Sea in East Asian Seas'. He has written extensively on defence and maritime issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean.
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29 Aug 2017 08:33Neither destroyer was showing Automatic Identification System data at the time of their accident. This was done to keep their identity as American warships secret.
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31 Jul 2017 09:35It looks as though the United States is going back to its position during negotiations on UNCLOS, and setting aside the carefully balanced nature of the EEZ regime.
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26 May 2017 10:06The selection of Mischief Reef raises the question as to what particular freedom of navigation the US was seeking to exercise.
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16 Jan 2017 17:02Tillerson’s suggestion does not help the US politically in the region.
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02 Sep 2016 12:45Earlier today US President Barack Obama traveled to Midway Atoll, located off the coast of Hawaii, to
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12 Nov 2015 08:21Several posts on The Interpreter have argued recently that Australia should join the US in conducting freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) in
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04 Aug 2015 15:17A recent piece by Elliot Brennan (
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28 Feb 2014 15:27