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Melting Frontiers: A Bold Vision for US Strategy in a Warming Arctic

Sylvia Jordan and Antonio Salinas | 02.07.25

“The position of the United States upon the two oceans would be either a source of great weakness...

Russia’s Deepening Ties to North Korea: China’s Gateway to the Arctic?

Jake Rinaldi and Brandon Tran | 08.13.24

Recently, the Moscow Times reported that Russia would coordinate a deal with China and North Korea...

Ice Dragon: China’s Antarctic Strategy

Jenna Higgins | 05.31.24

China’s interest in Antarctica has been a consistent—and proportionate—feature of its rise as a...

Fear, Honor, and Interest in the Arctic: The Case for Realism and Transactional Balancing

Ryan Burke and Adrienne Hopper | 12.21.22

In 2013, Frank Hoffman described the “bifurcation between policy and operations” as a black hole...

White Hulls in the North: The Case for Tapping Unused Federal Resources in the Arctic

Kristen M. Heiserman and Ryan Burke | 12.12.22

The United States cannot deter what it cannot detect. Two decades of twenty-first-century national...

The Punishment Paradox: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of Suspending Arctic Cooperation with Russia

Elizabeth Buchanan | 10.24.22

The age of Arctic exceptionalism is gone: the high north region is no longer a protected sphere of...

Melting the Myth of Arctic Exceptionalism

Jason Smith | 08.19.22

In 1987, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for the Arctic to be a “zone of peace.” In a...

Bridging the Gap: How the United States Can Immediately Address its Arctic Capability Limitations

Adrienne Hopper and Ryan Burke | 06.22.22

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is the latest punctuation in Putin’s pattern of bellicosity. US...

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