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The military wants it. Business wants it. But to get it, they have to get past conservatives who simply don't trust the United Nations -- or, more specifically, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The treaty has spooked them ever since 1982, when it opened for signature, even though it has been widely supported by their more moderate Republican brethren. Whatever specific qualms its opponents raise, the treaty's real problem is that in the last 30 years, compulsive U.N. skepticism has moved from the fringes of the GOP into its mainstream.
[ More ]Washington is gearing up for another fight over the Law of the Sea Convention (LOSC) as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to hold hearings in the coming weeks. But while the thirty year LOSC debate may start to sound like a broken record to some, the stakes of not ratifying the convention are the highest they have ever been for the United States.
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The author argues that the Obama administration's recent strategic pivot towards Asia makes ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea more of a strategic necessity
[ More ]The Obama administration and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) are beginning a new push to seek ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, known around Washington simply as the Law of the Sea Treaty.
[ More ]The author argues that the Obama administration should learn from its success in ratifying New Start, "[b]y having the military lobby moderate Republican Senators, like he did with New START, Obama may be able to ratify a treaty that his predecessor, President George W. Bush, failed to do."
[ More ]The author argues that conservatives who argue against the Law of the Sea Convention may inadvertently help their own worst enemies by preventing the U.S. from resisting efforts to shape international laws in ways inimical to U.S. national security interests.
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