Conflicting Interests in Regulating Navigation in the Bering Strait

... straits: Bab-el-Mandeb, Bonifacio, Golovnin, Sunda, Gibraltar, Lombok, Hormuz, Torres, Vries as well as the straits on the Northeast Passage (NEP), Laptev and Sannikov, and the Canadian Arctic archipelago that form the route of the Northwest Passage (NWP) [5] . About 80% of world trade is seaborne, and 3/4 of that amount pass through the largest international straits and canals. The United States, being one of the largest economies in the world and a key consumer of goods and resources, is interested ...