(Un)Frozen Frontiers: A Multilateral Dispute Settlement Treaty for Resolving Boundary Disputes in the Arctic
Article from: OGEL 2 (2012), in Polar Energy Law (Arctic, Antarctic)
Abstract
The unanticipated melt of the Arctic ice pack over the past decade has highlighted and accelerated the claims of those nations with territories in the Arctic, Canada, Denmark (via Greenland), Norway, Russia and the US, to the region's previously unnavigable trade routes, and the rich undiscovered deposits of resources that lie under the receding Arctic ice. Serious questions have arisen, however, whether there exists a suitable legal framework for resolving the competing claims of the Arctic states to the Arctic territories and the region's resources. There is and can ...