Description
Book SynopsisIn this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.
Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic brings together circumpolar viewpoints from North America, Europe and Asia for an integrated discussion of strategic military, diplomatic, and security challenges in the high North. Thoughtful analyses are included of different regions, climate issues, institutions, and foreign and security policies. This is an important book for students of international studies, political science, and northern studies.
Trade ReviewThe EcoTravel Guide online magazine featured 'The Fast-Changing Arctic' in February 2014. "Much has been written on the climatological and ecological stresses on the region, with little addressed on the military, defence, strategic and macro-economic opportunities associated with polar thaw. Here, international scholars and military professionals explore the strategic consequences of sea-ice decline. Timely reading indeed, on sovereignty and territorial disputes, oil and gas exploration, fishing, coastguard responsibilities and Arctic tourism."
The Fast-Changing Arctic is a comprehensive treatment of current Arctic policy issues by authors with diverse backgrounds and perspectives . . . a coherent whole. John D. Jacobs, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
The Fast-Changing Arctic provides many new perspectives on a traditional understanding of Arctic security. Nikolas Sellheim, The Polar Record
Table of Contents
- Foreword: Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance
- Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
- Arctic Climate Change: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities
- 1. The Fast Changing Maritime Arctic
- Lawson W. Brigham
- 2. Can We Keep Up with Arctic Change?
- Alun Anderson
- 3. "Politicization" of the Environment: Environmental Politics and Security in the Circumpolar North
- Lassi Kalevi Heininen
- 4. Conceptualizing Climate Security for a Warmer World: Complexity and the Environment-Conflict Linkage
- Daniel Claussen ant LTJC Michael Clausen, USCG
- Cooperation and Conflict: Paths Forward
- 5. Cooperation or Conflict in a Changing Arctic? Opportunities for Maritime Cooperation in Arctic National Strategies
- Ian G. Brosnan, Thomas M. Leschine, and Edward L. Miles
- 6. Energy and the Arctic Dispute: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?
- Nong Hong
- 7. Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic
- James Manicom
- 8. Babysteps: Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic
- Maj. Henrik Jedig Jorgensen
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Regional Perspectives: Europe and the High North Atlantic
- 9. Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland
- Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen
- North America
- 10. US Arctic Policy: The Reluctant Arctic Power
- Rub Huebert
- 11. US Defence Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power
- Barry Scott Zellen
- Russia
- 12. Mirror Images? Canda, Russia, and the Circumpolar World
- P. Whitney Lackenbauer
- 13. Russia's Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Restraints
- Katrazyna Zysk
- 14. Russia Opens Its Maritime Arctic
- Lawson W. Brigham
- 15. Regional Security and Prosperity: The US-Russia Reset in the Antimeridianal Arctic
- Caitlyn Antrim
- Concluding Observations
- 16. Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indigenous, State, and Global Interests
- Barry Scott Zellen
- Afterward: Think Again - The Arctic
- Lawson W. Brigham
