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A Navigational-Safety Framework Cannot Fix a Security Crisis

The Straits of Malacca and Singapore, like Hormuz, are narrower than 24 nautical miles, meaning littoral states' 12-nautical-mile territorial sea claims eliminate any high-seas corridor between them and in 2007 Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore resolved decades of tension through a Cooperative Mechanism where user states voluntarily fund an Aids to Navigation Fund rather than paying mandatory tolls. Iran, which has not…