The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World
Edited by Barry Scott Zellen, with a Foreword by the Honorable Mead Treadwell and an Afterward by Lawson W. Brigham
$34.95 CAD / $41.95 USD
410 pages, 14 illustrations
6 x 9 inches
978-1-55238-646-0 (Paperback)
978-1-55238-648-4 (Institutional PDF)
978-1-55238-649-1 (ePub)
June 2013
About the Book
The circumpolar arctic is facing a period of unprecedented change which will have ongoing ramifications for strategic, military, and security issues in the high North. What challenges will we face as these changes take place?
In this timely book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.
Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic brings together circumpolar viewpoints from North America, Europe and Asia for an integrated discussion of strategic military, diplomatic, and security challenges in the high North. Thoughtful analyses are included of different regions, climate issues, institutions, and foreign and security policies.
This is an important book for students of international studies, political science, and northern studies.
With a Foreword by the Honorable Mead Treadwell and an Afterword by Lawson W. Brigham.
About the Editors
Barry Scott Zellen is a specialist on Arctic security, sovereignty, and self-governance. He directs the Fast-Changing Arctic Project as a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North and is a member of the board of directors of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States.
With Contributions By: Alun Anderson, Caitlyn Antrim, Rasmus Gjedsso Bertelsen, Lawson W. Brigham, Ian G. Brosnan, Daniel Clausen, J.G. Michael Clausen, Lassi Kalevi Heininen, Nong Hong, Rob Huebert, Henrik Jedig Jorgensen, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Thomas M. Leschine, James Manicom, Edward L. Miles, Barry Scott Zellen, and Katarzyna Zysk
Praise for The Fast-Changing Arctic
—John D. Jacobs, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
The Fast-Changing Arctic provides many new perspectives on a traditional understanding of Arctic security.
—Nikolas Sellheim, The Polar Record
Table of Contents
 
Foreword: Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance
Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
Arctic Climate Change: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities
The Fast-Changing Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
Can We Keep Up with Arctic Change?
Alun Anderson
"Politicization"” of the Environment: Environmental Politics and Security in the Cirucmpolar North
Lassi Kalevi Heininen
Conceptualizing Climate Change Security for a Warming World: Complexity and the Environment-Conflict Linkage
Daniel Clausen and LTJG Michael Clausen, USCG
Cooperation and Conflict: Paths Foreward
Cooperation or Conflict in a Changing Arctic? Opportunities for Maritime Cooperation in Arctic National Strategies
Ian G. Brosnan, Thomas M. Leschine, and Edward L. Miles
Energy and the Arctic Dispute: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?
Nong Hong
Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic
Maj. James Mincom
Babysteps: Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic
Henrik Jedig J ørgensen
Regional Perspectives
Europe at the High North Atlantic
Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland
Rasmus Gjedssø Berelsen
North America
US Arctic Policy: The Reluctant Arctic Power
Rob Huebert
US Defence Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power
Barry Scott Zellen
Russia
Mirror Images? Canada, Russia, and the Circumpolar World
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Russia’s Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Restraints
Katarzyna Zysk
Russia Opens Its Maritime Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
Regional Security and Prosperity: The Us-Russia Reset in the Antemeridial Arctic
Caitlyn Antrim
Concluding Observations
Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indgenous, State, and Global Interests at the Top of the World
Barry Scott Zellen
Afterword: Think Again—The Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
About the Contributing Authors
Index
Table of Contents
 
Foreword: Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance
Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
Arctic Climate Change: Strategic Challenges and Opportunities
The Fast-Changing Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
Can We Keep Up with Arctic Change?
Alun Anderson
"Politicization"” of the Environment: Environmental Politics and Security in the Cirucmpolar North
Lassi Kalevi Heininen
Conceptualizing Climate Change Security for a Warming World: Complexity and the Environment-Conflict Linkage
Daniel Clausen and LTJG Michael Clausen, USCG
Cooperation and Conflict: Paths Foreward
Cooperation or Conflict in a Changing Arctic? Opportunities for Maritime Cooperation in Arctic National Strategies
Ian G. Brosnan, Thomas M. Leschine, and Edward L. Miles
Energy and the Arctic Dispute: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?
Nong Hong
Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic
Maj. James Mincom
Babysteps: Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic
Henrik Jedig J ørgensen
Regional Perspectives
Europe at the High North Atlantic
Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland
Rasmus Gjedssø Berelsen
North America
US Arctic Policy: The Reluctant Arctic Power
Rob Huebert
US Defence Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power
Barry Scott Zellen
Russia
Mirror Images? Canada, Russia, and the Circumpolar World
P. Whitney Lackenbauer
Russia’s Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Restraints
Katarzyna Zysk
Russia Opens Its Maritime Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
Regional Security and Prosperity: The Us-Russia Reset in the Antemeridial Arctic
Caitlyn Antrim
Concluding Observations
Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indgenous, State, and Global Interests at the Top of the World
Barry Scott Zellen
Afterword: Think Again—The Arctic
Lawson W. Brigham
About the Contributing Authors
Index