title: UNIVERSALISING THE LEGAL REGULATION OF NAVAL FORCES
abstract: It is impossible to study the development of the legal regulation of naval forces without analysing the supranational legal component. Although the law of the sea, as defined above, has traditionally had an international private and public legal dimension, the relevant sources have for a long time been primarily customary and concerned primarily the commercial exploitation of the sea and merchant shipping. All references to the maritime power of states and their rights at sea in this dimension d
journal: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies