{"product_id":"the-polar-pivot-great-power-competition-in-the-arctic-antarctica-9781626379947","title":"The Polar Pivot: Great Power Competition in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce impassable and inhospitable, both the Arctic region and Antarctica are rapidly emerging as geopolitically strategic hot spots. As Ryan Burke writes in The Polar Pivot, the ice is melting and the tensions rising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this new environment, what are the stakes? Why are Russia and China racing to increase their military capabilities and infrastructures in the polar regions? What is the United States doing to safeguard its interests and influence in response? Arguing that both poles are becoming contested military domains in an arena of great power competition, Burke tackles these questions and outlines the shift necessary in US defense policy to face a potentially looming crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Makes a sophisticated and well-structured argument for the importance of the polar regions to the future national security of the United States.... \u003ci\u003eThe Polar Pivot\u003c\/i\u003e [is] an important contribution to the strategic debate over how the United States and its allies might best prepare for a potentially lengthy period of great power suspicion and rivalry.” — C. Dale Walton, \u003ci\u003eComparative Strategy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Should be in any collection concerned with US strategic and military goals in the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century.” — \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An important, interesting, well-researched, well-reasoned, and logically argued presentation of an increasingly important and often neglected geopolitical region.” — Lt Col. James M. Davitch, \u003ci\u003eAir \u0026amp; Space Operations Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Thin Ice: The Polar Melting Pot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecurity, Sovereignty, and Influence in the Polar Regions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Four Cs: Commons, Claims, Covenants, and Cosmos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolar Peer Powers: China and Russia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS Security Policy and Strategy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Polar Trap: Conditions for Conflict\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToward a US Grand Strategy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBalancing on the Pivot: The Future of Polar Security\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535310029143,"sku":"9781626379947","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781626379947.jpg?v=1755860609","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-polar-pivot-great-power-competition-in-the-arctic-antarctica-9781626379947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}