Freedom of Navigation in the Arctic: Options for Deterring Russia's Excessive Maritime Claims

• Main Author: Sims, Michael "Mac"
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: maritime claims; arctic; FONOP; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Lanes; Pacific; Climate change; North Atlantic; Northern Sea Route; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/66913

As climate change opens up new lanes of international commerce from melting sea ice in the Arctic, the region has growing importance to American strategy. The newly viable Northern Sea Route (NSR) through the Arctic Ocean around Russia will prove to be one of the 21st century’s most important commer...