Portugal, the small European nation located on the western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, known to have colonized over 50 countries of the world spread across Asia, South America and Africa is in the news again. Except that this time, it’s not for her infamous colonial conquests. The good old Portugal is expanding her maritime frontiers in a last-ditch effort to return to global reckoning. If her claim to an additional 2.15 million square kilometres of continental shelf materializes, she will have an oceanic territory of more than 3,877,408 km2....