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Arctic and subarctic straits and seas in trade and geostrategy
Global climate change opens up new opportunities for international transport networks, particularly with the trend towards glacier retreat around the North Pole.
If the trend...
Canada and Russia in the Arctic: Competition or Cooperation?
Canadian-Russian relations in the twentieth century have been complicated at best and conflictual at worst. Though crisis has been avoided between the two Arctic...
Arctic policy: EU opens consultation on the future approach
European Commission and the European External Action Service jointly launched a public consultation on the way forward for the European Union's Arctic policy ....
Russia Says Pollution in Arctic Tundra is Not Above Limit
Recent studies of water and soil have shown that the oil pollution level at the Arctic Ambarnaya River, located near the thermal power plant...
The implementation of the BRI project at sea: South Maritime and Arctic Silk Roads
In 2013, China started to launch a global system of transport corridors that should connect China with the entire world – the countries of...
Arctic Security and Dialogue: Assurance through Defence Diplomacy
Authors: Troy J. Bouffard, Elizabeth Buchanan & Michael Young*
For over two decades, key stakeholders have been confident that the Arctic Council was the appropriate...
Norilsk Nickel has a permafrost monitoring plan
Russian nickel and palladium producer will monitor the state of permafrost
Russia's Norilsk Nickel, a major global nickel and palladium producer, has created an environmental...
Melting Ice on the Roof of the World: Opportunities and Dilemmas in the Arctic Ocean
For centuries humanity has relied upon the ocean for its evolution and sustenance: be it the medium of exploring new lands as done so...
Strategic Partnership, Arctic-Style: How Russia and China Play the Game
Russian-Chinese technical-military cooperation in the 1990s started
when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated large-scale
rearmament based on Russian technologies. About 80% of Russian armaments...
Connecting the Poles: The importance of collaboration between regions
The
Arctic and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), separated by thousands of miles, share
many of the same wonders and challenges, and yet they hardly work together...