Thursday, December 26, 2024

Canada’s Politics and Government News Source Since 1989

Thursday, December 26, 2024 | Latest Paper

Adam P. MacDonald

Adam P. MacDonald is a PhD student in the political science department and deputy-director of the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University. He can be reached at adam.macdonald@dal.ca or on Twitter @adampmac.

Canada’s emerging freedom of navigation conundrum

Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) are regularly conducted by the United States Navy globally, challenging ‘excessive maritime claims’ of coastal states which they accuse

Opinion | BY ADAM P. MACDONALD | May 27, 2019

Satellite image of the Northwest Passage, Jan. 29, 2016. Further complicating the matter is that Canada’s Arctic waters claims, specifically the drawing of strait baselines around the Arctic Archipelago designating them as internal waters, rely on similar legal rationales to those used by Russia with respect to the Northern Sea Route and China regarding the Qiongzhou Strait (between Hainan Island and the Chinese mainland). Satellite image courtesy Government of Canada

Canada’s emerging freedom of navigation conundrum

Opinion | BY ADAM P. MACDONALD | May 27, 2019

Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) are regularly conducted by the United States Navy globally, challenging ‘excessive maritime claims’ of coastal states which they accuse

Canada’s emerging freedom of navigation conundrum

Opinion | BY ADAM P. MACDONALD | May 27, 2019

Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) are regularly conducted by the United States Navy globally, challenging ‘excessive maritime claims’ of coastal states which they accuse

Satellite image of the Northwest Passage, Jan. 29, 2016. Further complicating the matter is that Canada’s Arctic waters claims, specifically the drawing of strait baselines around the Arctic Archipelago designating them as internal waters, rely on similar legal rationales to those used by Russia with respect to the Northern Sea Route and China regarding the Qiongzhou Strait (between Hainan Island and the Chinese mainland). Satellite image courtesy Government of Canada