Alexander Lott
About/Bio
Dr. Alexander Lott works as a researcher at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea at the UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. He is also a lecturer (0.1) of administrative law at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Alexander is the author of the books “Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea: Use of Force and Discriminatory Navigational Restrictions in Straits” (Brill, 2022) and “The Estonian Straits: Exceptions to the Strait Regime of Innocent or Transit Passage” (Brill, 2018) as well as the editor and co-author of the anthology “Maritime Security Law in Hybrid Warfare” (Brill, 2024).
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Christmas Day Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea
December 31, 2024
Alexander Lott
In less than 14 months, submarine telecommunications cables connecting Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, and Sweden have been cut nine times in the Baltic Sea. In addition, an underwater electricity cable and a gas pipeline have been cut by a ship anchor. These damages occurred in three separate incidents all involving a foreign commercial ship dragging an anchor…
Attacks against Europe’s Offshore Infrastructure within and beyond the Territorial Sea under Jus ad Bellum
October 17, 2023
Alexander Lott
The EU and NATO Member States appear to be engaged in a shadow war with Russia where pipelines, cables, and windfarms connected with the former are allegedly targeted by the latter. The recent suspected sabotage against a 77-km-long submarine gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable linking Estonia and Finland fuels the common…
Russia’s Blockade in the Sea of Azov: A Call for Relief Shipments for Mariupol
March 14, 2022
Alexander Lott
On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have no possibility to evacuate from besieged cities of eastern Ukraine as the humanitarian corridors are not functioning (see here). According to media reports, the worst humanitarian situation right now is found in the port city of Mariupol…
Popular articles by Alexander Lott
Attacks against Europe’s Offshore Infrastructure within and beyond the Territorial Sea under Jus ad Bellum
October 17, 2023
Alexander Lott
The EU and NATO Member States appear to be engaged in a shadow war with Russia where pipelines, cables, and windfarms connected with the former are allegedly targeted by the latter. The recent suspected sabotage against a 77-km-long submarine gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable linking Estonia and Finland fuels the common…
Russia’s Blockade in the Sea of Azov: A Call for Relief Shipments for Mariupol
March 14, 2022
Alexander Lott
On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched an invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have no possibility to evacuate from besieged cities of eastern Ukraine as the humanitarian corridors are not functioning (see here). According to media reports, the worst humanitarian situation right now is found in the port city of Mariupol…
Christmas Day Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea
December 31, 2024
Alexander Lott
In less than 14 months, submarine telecommunications cables connecting Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, and Sweden have been cut nine times in the Baltic Sea. In addition, an underwater electricity cable and a gas pipeline have been cut by a ship anchor. These damages occurred in three separate incidents all involving a foreign commercial ship dragging an anchor…