Arctic News and Analysis
As NATO deepens its presence in the far north, an ambitious new military cooperation deal between Norway and the United Kingdom is still another example of the blurring of distinctions between Arctic and Atlantic maritime security.
What started as a predictable election season in Norway has been anything but, with economic and security concerns suggesting a closer race than previously thought. This as the country reworks its Arctic policy and begins to rethink its roles within Europe.
Svalbard continues to see itself in the middle of rapidly changing geopolitics throughout the Arctic. Norway has been seeking to strengthen its sovereignty in the archipelago, but pushback in the form of Russian and Chinese alternative narratives is becoming more difficult to ignore.
Canada's election season has been rocked both by unprecedented economic and political pressures from the new Trump administration, and renewed debates over the direction of Arctic Canadian security policy, including in the Arctic.
Even before the second Trump administration began, the president-elect began to yet again raise the dead-end prospect of annexing Greenland, giving no coherent reasons and alienating the Danish Kingdom. This controversy overshadowed the March elections in Greenland, leading to a new coalition government and a largely-unified stance against American neo-imperialism.
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