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Polar Cousins Christian Leuprecht

Polar Cousins By Christian Leuprecht

Polar Cousins by Christian Leuprecht

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With chapters that raise awareness, address challenges, and inform policy options, Polar Cousins reviews the state of strategic thinking and options on Antarctica and the Southern Oceans in light of experience in the circumpolar North.

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Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures by Christian Leuprecht

Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and strategically central to geopolitical rivalry. At the same time, rapid political, social, and environmental change presents unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the regions.

With chapters that raise awareness, address challenges, and inform policy options, Polar Cousins reviews the state of strategic thinking and options on Antarctica and the Southern Oceans in light of experience in the circumpolar North. Prioritizing strategic issues, it provides an essential discussion of geostrategic thinking, strategic policy, and strategy development.

Featuring contributions from international defence experts, scientists, academics, policymakers, and decisionmakers, Polar Cousins offers key insights into the challenges unique to the polar regions.

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The geopolitics of the polar regions are rapidly evolving, and this book provides critical insights and a contextual foundation into the similarities and differences of the Northern and Southern Polar regions, as well as their connections to, and impacts on the rest of the world.
-Mike Sfraga, chair, United States Arctic Research Commission, founding director, chair, and distinguished fellow, Polar Institute, Wilson Centre

Polar regions are increasingly strategically important. Polar Cousins provides relevant, timely information and historical examples to contrast the geostrategic significance of the Arctic and Antarctic helping the reader understand the two poles, and how and why they matter.
-Frances Ulmer, Former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and Former Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage

Polar Cousins is an expansive, innovative, fascinating and multi-disciplinary comparative study, examining the state of the Arctic and Antarctic - all at a time of heightened environmental, great power and governance challenges. It introduces fresh scholarship, comparing the circumstances at the two poles, addressing strategic competition, contrasting history and geography, territorial issues, geo-politics, military threats, trade and economic challenges, environmental and ecological concerns and legal perspectives. This is a must read for environmental, security, economic and foreign policy makers, notably including claimant and resident states such as the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
-Professor John Blaxland, Australian National University, former Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

About Christian Leuprecht

Christian Leuprecht is Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Military Journal, director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, and adjunct research professor at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security.

Douglas Causey is is professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage, faculty affiliate of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center Arctic Initiative, and global fellow of the Wilson Center's Polar Institute. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist by training, he has authored over two hundred publications on the environmental correlates of Arctic climate change, and he and his students are actively conducting research in Alaska, Bering Sea, and Northwestern Greenland. He has published extensively on policy issues related to the Arctic environment, Arctic environmental security, and bioterrorism and public health.

Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Christian Leuprecht, Douglas Causey, Roger Bradbury, and Heather Nicol
  • Part I
  • Prologue: Arctic Polar Security
  • Randy Church Kee
  • Polar Environmental Security: Challenges, Threats, and Realities
  • Douglas Causey, Randy Church Kee, and Brenda Dunkle
  • The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions
  • Heather N. Nicol and Lassi K. Heininen
  • Polar Disaster Diplomacy: Geostrategies for Norway
  • Ilan Kelman
  • The Case for a Five Eyes Critical Minerals Alliance Focusing on Greenland
  • Dwayne Ryan Menezes
  • Part II
  • Prologue: A Southern Perspective
  • A. J. (Tony) Press
  • Challenges and Opportunities for Southern Ocean and Antarctic Governance
  • Joanna Vince
  • Australia's East Antarctic Geostrategic Futures: Nirvana or Doom Inbound?
  • Peter Layton
  • Antarctic Environmental Security: Status and Challenges
  • Robin Warner
  • New Zealand's Foreign and Security Policy in Antarctica: Small States, Shelter Seeking, and the Changing Polar Landscape
  • Joe Burton
  • Polar Coda
  • Heather Nicol, Timo Koivurova, and Douglas Causey

Additional information

NPB9781773853888
9781773853888
1773853880
Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures by Christian Leuprecht
Christian Leuprecht
Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
New
Paperback
University of Calgary Press
2022-12-30
220
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