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Arctic Conflicts & Russian Foreign Policy, Tania Röttger, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
Arctic Conflicts & Russian Foreign Policy, Tania Röttger, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
In this paper, we analyze the intersections of legal and political dispute resolution methods in Arctic territorial disputes involving Russia and several Western governments, including Canada and the United States. There are two current disputes. The first dispute concentrates on the Lomonosov Ridge, a geological feature that runs near the North Pole and has been used by three states to claim the North Pole as part of their continental shelf. The second dispute deals with the legal status of the Northern Sea Route. Our paper evaluates the tradeoffs between the legal and political constraints in these disputes between Russia and …