Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword and Acknowledgments

In Commemoration of Jon M. Van Dyke (1943–2011)

Introduction

Part One The Straits Regime in the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention

Chapter 1 The Great Straits Debate: The Conflict, Debate, and Compromise That Shaped the Straits Articles of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Chapter 2 Rights and Responsibilities of Strait States

Part Two Safety and Environment

Chapter 3 Making or Breaking the International Law of Transit Passage? Meeting Environmental and Safety Challenges in the Torres Strait with Compulsory Pilotage

Chapter 4 Canada and the Governance of the Northwest Passage: Rough Waters, Cooperative Currents, Sea of Challenges

Part Three Special Regimes

Chapter 5 The Baltic Straits

Chapter 6 The Strait of Messina and the Present Regime of International Straits

Chapter 7 Protection of the Sea Lanes in the Jeju Waters and Maritime Cooperation in Northeast Asia

Chapter 8 Article 35(c) Straits of the Un Law of the Sea Convention

Chapter 9 The Turkish Straits аnd the Legal Regime оf Passage

Chapter 10 The Sea of Azov and the Kerch Straits

Part Four Security, Piracy and Terrorism

Chapter 11 IMO Policies and Actions Regarding Piracy

Chapter 12 Securing the World’s Most Dangerous Strait? The Bab-Al Mandeb and Gulf of Aden

Chapter 13 Security, Piracy and Terrorism in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Chapter 14 Safety and Security Issues in the Taiwan Strait—Some Reflections

Chapter 15 Cooperation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore

Index