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 Østhagen Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Few areas have been the source of as much speculation, hype, and overgeneralization as the Arctic region at the start of the […]
By Amit K. Chhabra & Brent Robinson The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs Russian foreign policy appears to be driven by offensive realism. Offensive realists believe that power maximization is […]
By Andreas Kuersten RealClearDefense Icebreakers ply polar waters, smashing open sea lanes with their heavily armored bows. Yet in addition to being equipped to do battle with the elements, should […]
By Morgane Fert-Malka World Policy What does Russia want? This is, increasingly, the question on everyone’s lips, and a host of Western commentators and policymakers have started looking at the Arctic as […]
By Andreas Kuersten The Arctic Journal As climate change opens the Arctic to human activity and the region steadily captures more international attention, a rich tapestry of Arctic international governance […]
By Andreas Kuersten The National Interest Anyone who’s paid any attention to media coverage of the Arctic, even just in passing, knows that there’s a battle brewing for the top […]
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 Eli Kintisch Science & Diplomacy On a planet that is undergoing profound change, the Arctic is experiencing some of the most rapid changes, leading to historic, unexpected, and largely […]
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, […]
