THERE has been freedom of the seas in peace-time for nearly three hundred years. Early in the seventeenth century Grotius wrote his Mare Liberum, the ’Free Sea,’ against the pretensions of the ...

U.S. and U.K. forces have spent the last month attacking Houthi installations in Yemen, in the name of protecting the “freedom of navigation.” As one senior Biden Administration official explained: ...

The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. None of its crew are U.S. nationals, and when it sailed through the Red Sea last month, it wasn't carrying cargo to or from an American port. But when the ...

The modern economy rests on a rule so old that hardly anybody alive can remember a time before it: Ships of any nation may sail the high seas. Suddenly, that pillar of the international order shows ...