Arctic Science Cannot Afford a New Cold War
Editorial Nature Records are being broken in the Arctic, but not the kinds to celebrate. Last summer, Greenland lost more than twice as much ice as the yearly average since […]
Tag Archives: Law of the Sea
The Different Levels of Geopolitics of the Arctic
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 […]
Losing the South China Sea
By Bill Hayton Foreign Policy Vietnam’s history is full of heroic tales of resistance to China. But this month Hanoi bent the knee to Beijing, humiliated in a contest over […]
Russia’s View of the Arctic
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 […]
The South China Sea Arbitration: Implications for the Senkaku Islands
By Ryan Scoville Lawfare One of the big takeaways from the South China Sea arbitration is that the high-tide features in the Spratly Islands are mere “rocks” under Article 121(3) […]
The Undersea Mining Spree
By Brooke Jarvis Pacific Standard Picture a map of the world. Maybe you’re imagining a political map, with colorful nations interlocking like puzzle pieces. Or maybe you see yellow deserts, […]
The Arctic Continental Shelf: Geological, Legal, or Geopolitical?
By Mia Bennett Cryopolitics With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up a lot lately. The term also appears […]
Growing Arctic Espionage and Posturing
By James Bamford Foreign Policy For the countries that border the Arctic Ocean— Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway, and Denmark (through its territory of Greenland)—an accessible ocean means new opportunities. […]
China’s Island Builders
By Andrew S. Erickson & Conor M. Kennedy Foreign Affairs Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at […]
The Coming Age of Deep Seabed Mining
By Brooke Jarvis The California Sunday Magazine On the nights before a dive, Cindy Lee Van Dover likes to stand on the deck of her research ship, looking down into […]
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