GB discusses the many-sided condition of the conditional state with former Canadian foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy
GB:...
Tags: Aboriginal rights, Arctic, China, duty to care, environmental impact, Global Brief, human rights, humanitarian crisis, humanitarian intervention, India, Inuit, Kofi Annan, Libyan internvention, Lloyd Axworthy, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Russia, Security Council reform, Syrian intervention, US, WW2
Why Canada and Russia should unite to support a common position against the US in advancing certain Arctic claims
Unlike...
Tags: 1949 Corfu Channel Case, 1959 Antarctic Treaty, Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic ocean, Canada, climate change, Global Brief, Michael Byers, Northern Sea Route, Russia, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS, US
The Viking state has seen the prize, and is quietly positioning itself for victory
The Arctic is once again at the centre...
Tags: Antarctic whaling, Arctic, Daniel Buikema Fjaertoft, Econ Pöyry, Global Brief, Norway’s Arctic archipelago, Nowegian foreign policy, polar exploration, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Shtokman project, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
As the continent emerges from its luckiest geopolitical century, it will have to adjust, in culture and capabilities, to...
Tags: American Civil War, Arctic, Arctic competition, Canada-US relations, Canadian security, CANCOM, diminishing American power, Fenian Raids, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, NORAD, North America, North American Security, North American strategic culture, North American wars, NORTHCOM, Pearl Harbor, Pequot War, Seven Years' War, Soviets, Treaty of Washington, WW2
The solutions to the complex challenges of the ‘New Arctic’ will lie in the intricate games – strategic dances –...
Tags: Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic Five, Berlin Wall, British Petroleum oil, China, climate change, Copenhagen, Dan Hurley, EU, G8, Global Brief, International Criminal Court, Japan, Landmines Treaty, Lloyd Axworthy, New Arctic, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Rome Statute, Russia, South Korea, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, UNCLOS
There is considerable scholarly writing on the loss of American centrality in world affairs – the end of hegemony and the...
The public discussion about the geopolitics and geo-economics of the Arctic is getting more and more polarized. On the one...
Tags: A-5 nations, Arctic, Arctic competition, Canada, Charles Emmerson, Global Brief, Greenland, Michael Byers, Russia, The Future History of the Arctic, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, US
The polar endgame is anticlimax: no major conflict in sight, and strategic cooperation reigns
The Arctic, strategically...
Tags: 1959 Antarctic Treaty, 1993 Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, Arctic, Arctic competition, Arctic conflict, Arctic Council, Arctic ocean, Arctic oil, Barents Sea, Bering Strait, Canada, Chukchi Sea, Continental Shelf, Denmark, Global Brief, Greenland, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Michael Byers, NAFTA, North Pole, Northwest Passage, nuclear submarines, Russia, Russian archipelago, UNCLOS, US, US Coastguard, USSR
What will the Arctic endgame among competing countries and parties look like?
Sergei Plekhanov
“Creation of an international...
