A Canadian Perspective on the Continued Non-Ratification of the Convention on the Law of the Sea by the United States

In: The Canadian yearbook of international law: Annuaire canadien de droit international, Band 43, S. 393-417

Abstract

SummaryFor twenty years, both Canada and the United States were non-parties to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOS Convention). In 2003, Canada finally ratified the LOS Convention, leaving the United States as the only industrialized state that was not a party to the "constitution of the oceans." Canada's perspective on the US non-party status involves an equal measure of frustration/disappointment, appreciation/understanding, and ambivalence.