US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy docked in Tromsø, Norway, October 2023 [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] By Marc Lanteigne As the Arctic Ocean faces ongoing warming and the breakup of the far north’s ice cap, access to the region, and to its resources, have become a greater concern for Arctic and non-Arctic governments. Ice erosion in… Continue reading Icebreaker Chess? A New Polar Shipbuilding Deal Amongst NATO Members
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Oasis No More? Svalbard and Contested Arctic Strategies
A bust of Roald Amundsen in the centre of the settlement at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Although there remains much conventional wisdom which still considers the Arctic to be only loosely situated within international law, and potentially subject to an inevitable competition over influence and resources, like any other body of… Continue reading Oasis No More? Svalbard and Contested Arctic Strategies

