The Northern Sea Route: а National or an International Transportation Corridor?

....” It should be noted that for Washington, Russia’s claims to controlling navigation on the NSR route and Russia’s entire Arctic policy are in many ways identical to what is happening in the South and East China seas , where Beijing lays claims to ... ... provisions, and the United States would successfully use the advantages derived from this. However, at the level of the doctrine of international law, there is another point of view which holds that many provisions of the 1982 Convention still cannot be considered ...