Caught in the Net
Fish, Ships, and Oil in the GDR-Poland Territorial Waters Dispute, 1949–1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9644205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Tompkins (0000-0002-6044-2316, University of Erfurt, corresponding author), Andrew S Tompkins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-195 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938922001029 |
| OpenAlex | W4366830067 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The 1945 Potsdam Agreement established a new border between Poland and Germany at the so-called “Oder-Neisse line,” but it left unsettled the question of the maritime boundary on the Baltic Sea. Until 1989, the water border remained a matter of dispute between the German Democratic Republic and the Polish People's Republic socialist allies otherwise at pains to demonstrate unity in geopolitical matters—especially with regard to their shared “border of peace and friendship.” In the intervening decades, East German fishermen and Polish ship captains repeatedly ran afoul of the invisible water border, the importance of which increased as UN conventions on the Law of the Sea affected fishing, shipping, drilling, and security matters. This article examines the diplomatic dispute over territorial waters in relation to its environmental dimensions and social consequences, demonstrating how the challenges of governing transnational space in a water environment greatly complicated everyday life for water users as well as the border work of both states
Baltic sea · Economics · Economy · Fishing · Friendship · Geography · Geopolitics · German · International law · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Territorial waters · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · German History and Society · Law · Oceanography
The Lost German East
Worlds of Dissent
Cleansing the Czechoslovak Borderlands
Stalin and Europe in the Postwar Period, 1945–53
Unfinished Business from Potsdam
The Oder–Neisse Line as a Place of Remembrance for Germans and Poles
Stalin Fixes the Oder-Neisse Line
The Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
The Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea
The Second Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea
The Legal Regime of Russian Territorial Waters
The Polish Mission to Liberia, 1934–1938
Polish Colonial Ambitions in the Inter-War Period
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |