Arctic News and Analysis
By Marc Lanteigne This week’s Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø took place following a tumultuous 2019 in the far north, including growing evidence of climate change’s distinct effects on the region, various geo-political frictions, and questions about the role of science in far northern development. The conference commenced during a month when Norway itself was… Continue reading Arctic Frontiers 2020: ‘Let’s Play Twister, Let’s Play Risk…’
By Mingming Shi 1) CBC News in Canada reveals a story of an Inuk woman, Qapik Attagutsiak, and how she and her family contributed to getting Canada through World War II. Ms Attagutsiak, a 99-year-old indigenous female, like many of her Canadian compatriots, helped gather materials for war supplies during the War. She will be… Continue reading Arctic News Roundup: 20-26 January
By Mingming Shi 1) This week, an article on The Independent Barents Observer unveiled a story about India's potential economic participation in a developing oil project in Russia. The Minister of Oil, Nature Gas and Steel of India, an Asian country which was accepted as an observer in the Arctic Council in 2013, asserts the… Continue reading Arctic News Roundup: 13-19 January
by Marc Lanteigne As the polar night in Tromsø began to give way to the first rays of sunshine, the city’s premiere film celebration wrapped up this weekend after celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. The theme of this year’s Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) was ‘Transformation’, and movies from across the Nordic region and well beyond… Continue reading Interlude: Films in the Far North
By Marc Lanteigne After decades of the Arctic being at the centre of many of the contests and conflicts of the cold war, by the dubious virtue of being the shortest distance between many parts of the two warring superpowers, the United States and the then-Soviet Union, the ‘top of the world’ assumed a strategic… Continue reading Plus ça Change? Understanding the New Dimensions of Security in the Arctic
