Fear, Honor, and Interest in the Arctic: The Case for Realism and Transactional Balancing
In 2013, Frank Hoffman described the “bifurcation between policy and operations” as a black hole...
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White Hulls in the North: The Case for Tapping Unused Federal Resources in the Arctic
The United States cannot deter what it cannot detect. Two decades of twenty-first-century national...
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The Punishment Paradox: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of Suspending Arctic Cooperation with Russia
The age of Arctic exceptionalism is gone: the high north region is no longer a protected sphere of...
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Melting the Myth of Arctic Exceptionalism
In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for the Arctic to be a “zone of peace.” In a...
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Bridging the Gap: How the United States Can Immediately Address its Arctic Capability Limitations
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is the latest punctuation in Putin’s pattern of bellicosity. US...
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How Will Russia’s War in Ukraine Affect Arctic Engagement?
The Arctic Council’s 2021 Strategic Plan was celebrated for its forward-thinking ambitions....
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Civil Affairs in the High North: How SOCOM’s Governance Specialists Can Become Arctic-Capable
Recently, Project 6633 asked authors to answer the question, “How can American special operations...
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Naughty or Nice: 2021 Arctic Edition
In the North Pole, Santa is busy making a list and checking it twice. Which Arctic states have...
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