By Victoria Herrmann Scientific American In late July, the Trump Administration appointed James DeHart as the first U.S. Coordinator for the Arctic. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. […]
By Andreas Kuersten Defense One America is finally taking steps to fix its woeful shortage of icebreakers, the armor-bowed vessels that enable year-round presence and passage through the ever-more-important Arctic […]
By Hannah Hoag Arctic Deeply Under UNCLOS, a coastal state is entitled to the continental shelf area (and its buried resources) that lies within 200 nautical miles of its coastline, […]
By Yereth Rosen Alaska Dispatch News In 1987, in the glow of glasnost, then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev detailed his vision of an Arctic that would be a “zone of peace” where […]
By Andreas Kuersten The Arctic Journal The United States is one of five countries with an Arctic coastline and continental shelf. As such, it is both burdened with direct responsibility […]
By Andreas Kuersten The Hill As President Obama tours Alaska this week, cries of hypocrisy fill the air. He is using these three days to highlight the effects of climate […]
By Gitte Seeberg The Arctic Journal Certain images are conjured up at the mention of the word ‘Arctic’: vast expanses of ice, the magic of the Northern Lights, glaciers churning […]
By Andreas Kuersten Forbes In April, the United States will assume chairmanship of the Arctic Council, but Washington’s Arctic policy discussion has been dominated by one debate: resource procurement (extraction) […]
By Andreas Kuersten The Hill The United States’ Arctic infrastructure is severely lacking – as is meaningful policy discussion concerning its development. Amid steadily growing opportunities, activity, and vessel traffic […]
