Passage Is Not Permission: Sovereignty, Innocent Passage and Foreign State Vessels in the Territorial Sea

Chapter 11 of 20 — part of a research treatise in public international law by S.S.Bukhari (The Scholarly Nexus, October 2026), examining ICJ jurisdiction and procedure, expropriation and investment protection, targeted sanctions, the law of the sea, refugee protection, and the formation of customary international law.

Two tribunals characterising the same Kerch Strait encounter in opposite directions, and the question whether a foreign State vessel may enter the territorial sea not to traverse it but to locate and embark persons.

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