All Washington wants is to continue doing what it has been doing since it became a maritime power: use its Navy to enhance international peace and security, deter conflict, reassure allies, and collect intelligence. LOST undercuts these strategic imperatives, and that is why it has always been a bad idea for the United States.

The George W. Bush administration is urging the U.S. Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing, and other ocean activities. Deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and deputy defense secretary Gordon England...

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

Outer space has become the next frontier for American national security and business. But instead of advancing American primacy in this realm, the Obama administration has wrongly decided not only to follow a European Union draft “code of conduct” regulating outer space, but also to circumvent the Senate’s central constitutional role in making treaties.

Only by continuing to act on the high seas as it always has can the United States hope to maintain a system of international rules that serves its own interests. Ratifying UNCLOS could very well have the opposite effect.

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea returns to the fore, and this time, it may well become ratified.

The South China Sea row highlights how much influence ASEAN has lost compared with Beijing.