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1. Territory --;1. Hans Island --;2. Svalbard --;3. Greenland --;4. Sverdrup Islands --;5. Summary --;2. Maritime boundaries --;1.1973 Canada-Denmark Boundary Treaty --;2.1990 Bering Sea Treaty --;3. Maritime boundaries around Jan Mayen --;4.2006 Greenland-Svalbard Boundary Treaty --;5.2010 Barents Sea Boundary Treaty --;6. Lincoln Sea boundary --;7. Summary --;3. Beaufort Sea boundary --;1. Background --;2. Resolution efforts --;3. Canada's legal position --;4. United States' legal position --;5. Law of maritime boundary delimitation within 200 nautical miles --;6. Law of maritime boundary delimitation beyond 200 nautical miles --;7. Potential negotiating positions --;7.1. Unilateral recognition of the other state's position --;7.2. Coastal length --;7.3. Relevance of islands --;7.4. Concavity of the coastline --;7.5. Canada's position beyond the EEZ --;7.6. Inuvialuit Final Agreement: a complicating factor --;7.7. United States' position beyond the EEZ. 8. Options for United States-Canada cooperation --;8.1. Canada makes a preliminary or partial submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf --;8.2. United States sends a "no objection statement" to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf --;8.3. Canada and United States maximize combined EEZ rights with a "special area" --;8.4. Multifunctional delimitation --;8.5. Provision of economic access rights --;8.6. Joint development arrangement --;9. Russia-Canada maritime boundary in the Beaufort Sea? --;10. Summary --;4. Extended continental shelves --;1. Continental shelf regime --;2. Seafloor highs --;2.1. Oceanic ridges --;2.2. Submarine ridges and submarine elevations --;3. Geomorphological and geological characteristics of the central Arctic Ocean --;3.1. Lomonosov Ridge --;3.2. Alpha/Mendeleev Ridge --;3.3. Submissions, responses, and diplomacy --;4. Options for submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. 4.1. Full submission without coordination with other states --;4.2. Exclude any disputed or potentially disputed area from the submission --;4.3. Agree not to object to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf considering data --;4.4. Coordinated submissions --;4.5. Joint submission --;5. Negotiating temporary lines or permanent boundaries before submitting --;5.1. Negotiate temporary lines in advance of Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf submissions --;5.2. Negotiate permanent boundaries in advance of Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf submissions --;6. Options for maritime boundary delimitation --;6.1. Delimitation of seafloor highs --;6.2. Delimiting ridges with sector or distance formulae --;6.3. Canada-Denmark boundary along the Lomonosov Ridge --;6.4. Third-party dispute resolution --;7. Non-Arctic states and Arctic continental shelves --;8. Summary --;5. Arctic Straits --;1. Northwest Passage. 1.1. Voyage of the SS Manhattan --;1.2. Voyage of the USCGC Polar Sea --;1.3. European Union and China --;1.4.1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement --;1.5. Concerns about a precedent --;2. Northern Sea Route --;2.1. Vil'Kitskii incidents --;2.2. Opening of the Northern Sea Route --;3. Assessment of Canada's and Russia's legal positions --;4. Canada-Russia cooperation --;5. Canada-United States cooperation --;6. Bering Strait --;7. Unimak Pass --;8. Nares Strait --;9. Multilateral mechanisms available to "strait states" --;10. Submarine voyages --;11. Summary --;6. Environmental protection --;1. Species protection --;1.1. Northern fur seals --;1.2. Polar bears --;1.3. Whales --;2. Fisheries --;2.1. Bering Sea "donut hole" --;2.2. Arctic Ocean Fisheries Organization --;3. Shipping --;3.1. Ship safety --;3.2. Ballast water --;4. Nuclear accidents --;5. Deep-sea mining --;6. Air-borne pollution --;6.1. Persistent organic pollutants --;6.2. Arctic haze --;6.3. Black carbon --;7. Oil spills. 7.1. United States --;7.2. Canada --;7.3. Norway --;7.4. Greenland --;7.5. Russia --;7.6. Liability for oil spills --;7.7. Agreement on oil spill preparedness and response --;8. Ecosystem-based management --;9. Summary --;7. Indigenous peoples --;1. Political participation and self-determination --;2. Indigenous rights and state claims --;3. Indigenous transnationalism and international law-making --;4. Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty --;5. Does sovereignty "begin at home"? --;6. Seal product exports --;7. Indigenous peoples and human rights --;8. Indigenous peoples and whaling --;9. Indigenous peoples and nuclear weapons --;10. Summary --;8. Security --;1. De-escalating the Pole --;2. China --;3. Arctic nuclear-weapon-free zones --;4. Non-state actors --;4.1. Drug-smuggling --;4.2. Illegal immigration --;4.3. Trafficking of weapons of mass destruction --;4.4. Terrorist attacks on aircraft --;4.5. Protests against oil and gas infrastructure --;5. Search and rescue --;6. Summary.
Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. International Law and the Arctic explains these developments in a manner that is accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.