SAMPLE DEFINITION OF "NATIONAL INTERESTS" RELATING TO SPS OF THE SOVIET UNION. EXAMPLES OF SOVIET NATIONAL INTERESTS ARE PROVIDED FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY AND ARE NOT TO BE TAKEN AS AUTHORITATIVE ests on resource and technological questions can be made concerning a large number of other key countries and delegations in international negotiations. The ability to identify predictable patterns in identification and assertion of national interest should not give rise to overconfidence in relation to projecting international political response to SPS. Knowing that phenomena can be studied and predicted empirically is no substitute for actually undertaking the effort to perform such studies and make such predictions. Further, strict reliance on observations of national and bloc behavior in negotiations on such matters as deep seabed mining or development of communications satellite networks may be misleading if applied directly to SPS. Despite some analogies between these applications of technology, solar power satellite systems are certain to invoke perceptions of national interest different from those invoked with reference to other technological and resource issues. THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO SPS In an ideal world, international reaction to satellite power systems would be based on universal moral principles codified in existing agreements, treaties-in-force, and global common law. In that utopia, the previous discussion would have little relevance: the reaction to various scenarios for the development of satellite power would be coherent, authoritative, and completely predictable. But such a utopia has not
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