The Fast-Changing Maritime Arctic: Defence and Security Challenges in a Warmer World

Book Description:

In this timely new 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 defenses, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.       Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Maritime Arctic brings together circumpolar viewpoints from Europe and North America 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.

Contents

Foreword: Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance

Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska

ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE: STRATEGIC CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

1. The Fast-Changing Maritime Arctic

Lawson W. Brigham

2. Can We Keep Up with Arctic Change?

Alun Anderson

3. “Politicization” of the Environment: Environmental Politics and Security in the Circumpolar North

Lassi Kalevi Heininen

4. Conceptualizing Climate Security for a Warming World: Complexity and the Environment-Conflict Linkage

Daniel Clausen and LTJG Michael Clausen, USCG

COOPERATION AND CONFLICT: PATHS FORWARD

5. 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

6. Energy and the Arctic Dispute: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?

Nong Hong

7. Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic

James Manicom

8. Babysteps: Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic

Maj. Henrik Jedig Jørgensen

REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Europe and the High North Atlantic

9. Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe

Islands, Greenland, and Iceland

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen

North America

10. U.S. Arctic Policy: The Reluctant Arctic Power

Rob Huebert

11. U.S. Defense Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power

Barry Scott ZellenRussia

12. Mirror Images? Canada, Russia, and the Circumpolar World

P. Whitney Lackenbauer

13. Russia’s Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Restraints

Katarzyna Zysk

14. Russia Opens Its Maritime Arctic

Lawson W. Brigham

15. Regional Security and Prosperity: The U.S.–Russia Reset in the Antimeridianal Arctic

Caitlyn Antrim

CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS

16. Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indigenous, 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