The legal status of the Northern Sea Route
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9219838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonid Timtchenko (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 174 |
| Pages | 193-200 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247400024256 |
| OpenAlex | W2159867337 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
For a long period the Northern Sea Route was considered by the Soviet Union as a national seaway closed to foreign shipping. In 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev announced his intention to open the Northern Sea Route for international navigation. In the following years a number of acts were adopted to realise this idea. These documents clarified to a great extent the attitude of the USSR to the sector concept, historic waters, and other aspects of the northern seas. Nevertheless, some uncertainties in the legal status of the Northern Sea Route remain. This article focuses on the doctrinal views, state practice of the USSR and Russia, and prospects of internationalisation of the Northern Sea Route on the basis of international convention
Business · Convention · Economics · Economy · Geography · International trade · Internationalization · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · State (computer science) · United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Global Political and Economic Relations · Law · Polar Research and Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |