Assessing the future of Arctic shipping in the wake of the Suez Canal incident
Could the incident of the Ever Given running aground in the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade for six days, be a turning point that leads to an expansion of container shipping along the Northern Sea...
16 Huhti 202122min
Interregnum No More: A Realist Perspective on the Geopolitics of the Arctic over the past 40 years
On this episode, Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe—an Arctic, Russia and Cold War expert at Loughborough University in England—analyses the emerging great power competition in the Arctic by providing a long...
1 Maalis 202133min
Prognosticating U.S. polar policies and geopolitics under the Biden administration
Dr. Mike Sfraga, director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., joins the podcast to discuss the various ways he sees the Biden administration altering American policies and ...
22 Helmi 202145min
Pandemic 2020 and the polar regions: The geopolitical year in review with Prof. Klaus Dodds
The rise of great power competition in the Arctic, the disruption of Antarctic governance due to COVID-19, and the impact of the coronavirus on vulnerable Arctic communities were some of the notable p...
23 Joulu 202038min
Beyond the Science Criterion: Reconsidering Antarctic governance in an era of climate change
Science is to a large extent the currency of governance and geopolitics in Antarctica, giving countries that conduct scientific research there a seat at the Antarctic Treaty System table. But should c...
21 Joulu 202027min
China’s polar strategy at a crossroads: Pursue paradigms of the 19th century past, or envision a sustainable future
China’s increasingly ambitious polar activities have to date largely centered on exerting physical presence in the Arctic and Antarctic, according to Dr. Nengye Liu, an associate professor of internat...
8 Loka 202032min
Asian engagement in the Arctic: Evolving strategies and activities of Asian Arctic Council observer states
The admission of China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea as observers to the Arctic Council in 2013 seemed a turning point in contemporary Arctic history, with the rapidly increasing engagement...
8 Syys 202028min
The return of great power competition: American geopolitical engagement in the Arctic, with D.A.S. Michael J. Murphy of the U.S. State Department
The opening of a US Consulate in Nuuk, Greenland represents the latest in a series of moves that signal a deepening geopolitical engagement in the Arctic by the United States in response to Russian an...
3 Heinä 202038min
