Essays

The Opportunity Costs of Ignoring the Law of Sea Convention in the Arctic

The paper first briefly surveys the extent to which the provisions of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) intersect with those of US interests in the Arctic. Not surprisingly, there is extensive overlap. The paper then reviews and critiques the arguments that (UNCLOS) is irrelevant or even antithetical to achieving those. interests; it then examines the case for UNCLOS, focusing on US interests on the Arctic seafloor and arguing that those interests are extensive and that accession would...

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 0 min read By:

Vice Admiral James Houck (ret.) ,

Research Team: Arctic Security Working Group,