A report by Australian Strategic Policy Institute: Key Findings: Some of China’s interests and activities in the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT), which include undeclared military activities and mineral exploration, may be at odds with Australian strategic interests and potentially breach… Read More »China’s expanding Antarctic interests: Implications for Australia
Clenched in the JAWS of America? Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972 by Daniel Heidt Climate change is transforming the Arctic. Questions abound about what this will mean for the Canadian Forces, for Canada’s sovereignty position, for… Read More »Canadian Sovereignty and the Joint Arctic Weather Stations, 1946-1972
A number of papers related to Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives are available online at the Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies website at: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cpmss/issue/view/2442 Introduction (to the papers) by Whitney Lackenbauer Abstract: “Climate change is transforming… Read More »Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives
Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic by HEININEN, Lassi, SERGUNIN, Alexander, YAROVOY, Gleb “Russia’s Arctic military strategy is a vexed question both in the media and in the expert community. Since the planting of a titanium Russian flag at the… Read More »Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic
The Original Symposium was instigated in 2001 and focused on US naval operations and strategic issues “On 17 and 18 April 2001 the Oceanographer of the Navy, the Office of Naval Research, the Arctic Research Commission, and the Naval Ice… Read More »Symposium on Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic
MILITARY CAPABILITIES IN THE ARCTIC by Siemon T. Wezeman SIPRI Background Paper – March 2012 “In recent years the forecast of far-reaching climate change in the Arctic has led to fears of future conflict in the region. Such fears have… Read More »Military Capabilities in the Arctic – SIPRI Paper
Geo-Politics in High North “The aim of the GeoPolitics in the High North research programme is to develop new knowledge about actors and their interests in the High North. The programme is led by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies,… Read More »Geo-Politics in High North
The Svalbard Archipelago – American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Territories, 1941-1950 edited and with an introduction by P.J. Capelotti Contains a US military report from 1942 that contains descriptions of every aspect of the islands… Read More »The Svalbard Archipelago
Drift Station – Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science by William F. Althhoff Potomac Books, Washington, 2007 “Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from… Read More »Drift Station
Recent Works on strategic and political issues: Scramble for the Arctic – Ownership, Exploitation and Conflict in the Far North by Richard Sales & Eugene Potapov (2010) Polar Imperative – A history of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh… Read More »Strategic Issues Bibliography
The Arctic Frontier edited by R. St. J. MacDonald University of Toronto Press, 1966 An series of articles concerning the administration of Northern territiories and their peoples and a relatively early reviews of the strategic significance of the Arctic.
The Scramble for the Arctic – Ownership, Exploitation and Conflict in the Far North by Richard Sales & Eugene Potapov Frances Lincoln Limited, London, 2010 “…examines the history of the region and its exploration, the current state of ownership, the… Read More »The Scramble for the Arctic
Russia and the North edited by Elana Wilson Rowe University of Iowa Press, 2009 A series of articles concerning Russia activities in the Arctic covering “circumpolar cooperation, security, fisheries, energy, climate change, population/migration and indigenous peoples“.
Polar Imperative – A history of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2010 “Polar Imperative is a definitive overview of many countries’ attempts to claim sovereign rights over the polar regions of North… Read More »Polar Imperative
US Navy Arctic Roadmap prepared by Task Force Climate Change / Oceanographer of the Navy – June 2011Read More »US Navy Arctic Roadmap
Theses and research papers on the strategic and military role of the Arctic.Read More »The Military Role of the Arctic
EUCOM Should Lead U.S. Combatant Commands in Defense of National Interests in the Arctic by By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., Sally McNamara and Richard Weitz, Ph.D. “Abstract: Eight countries hold vast territories in the Arctic: the United… Read More »EUCOM Should Lead U.S. Combatant Commands in Defense of National Interests in the Arctic