Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea

Steinberg, P.E.

doi:10.1080/00908320.2014.867193

Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea

Steinberg, P.E.

Authors

Professor Philip Steinberg philip.steinberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

Heightened attention is being paid to the Northwest Passage, the waters that flow among the islands of northern Canada and that, in the next decades, may be amenable to commercial navigation. Most debates regarding the Passage's legal status focus on Canada's contention that it is its internal waters and the United States’ contention that it is an international strait. This article proposes that a designation of the Passage as Canada's territorial sea would be as legally robust as the internal waters or international strait designations while satisfying both Canada's and the United States’ political objectives.

Citation

Steinberg, P. (2014). Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea. Ocean Development and International Law, 45(1), 84-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2014.867193

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 21, 2014
Deposit Date	Jan 24, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Mar 9, 2015
Journal	Ocean Development and International Law
Print ISSN	0090-8320
Electronic ISSN	1521-0642
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	45
Issue	1
Pages	84-106
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2014.867193
Keywords	Canada, Internal waters, Northwest Passage, United States.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Ocean Development and International Law on 21/01/2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00908320.2014.867193.