ABSTRACT
No one can foresee what the political geography of the sea will be like a generation from now. Certainly it will be very different. Very soon, in order to convey realistic images of national size and relationships, political maps of the world and even of individual coastal and island States will have to show zones of maritime jurisdiction as well as land territory and internal waters. People in the 21st century will surely be much more sea-minded than we are today, and the sea will play a greater role in international relations than ever before in history. Control over marine resources, over important shipping lanes, over the best sites and means for generating energy from the sea, will most certainly contribute substantially to a radical realignment of power relationships among States.
