The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World(Northern Lights)

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

Table of 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 Warmer World: Complexity and the Environment-Conflict Linkage Daniel Claussen ant LTJC 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 Jorgensen 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 Gjedsso Bertelsen North America 10. US Arctic Policy: The Reluctant Arctic Power Rub Huebert 11. US Defence Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power Barry Scott Zellen Russia 12. Mirror Images? Canda, Russia, and the Circumpolar World P. Whitney Lackenbauer 13. Russia's Arctic Strategy: Ambitions and Restraints Katrazyna Zysk 14. Russia Opens Its Maritime Arctic Lawson W. Brigham 15. Regional Security and Prosperity: The US-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 Barry Scott Zellen Afterward: Think Again - The Arctic Lawson W. Brigham

About the Author :
James Manicom is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is the author of Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea (Georgetown University Press). Barry Scott Zellen is a specialist on Arctic security, sovereignty, and selfgovernance. He directs the Fast Changing Arctic project as a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North and is a member of the board of directors of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. Rob Huebert is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary and associate director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. He was a senior research fellow of the Canadian International Council in 2008â9 and is a fellow with Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He publishes on the issues of Canadian Arctic security, maritime security, and Canadian defence and comments on Canadian security and Arctic issues in the national and international media. Barry Scott Zellen is a specialist on Arctic security, sovereignty, and selfgovernance. He directs the Fast Changing Arctic project as a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North and is a member of the board of directors of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press).

Review :
The EcoTravel Guide online magazine featured 'The Fast-Changing Arctic' in February 2014. "Much has been written on the climatological and ecological stresses on the region, with little addressed on the military, defence, strategic and macro-economic opportunities associated with polar thaw. Here, international scholars and military professionals explore the strategic consequences of sea-ice decline. Timely reading indeed, on sovereignty and territorial disputes, oil and gas exploration, fishing, coastguard responsibilities and Arctic tourism." The Fast-Changing Arctic is a comprehensive treatment of current Arctic policy issues by authors with diverse backgrounds and perspectives . . . a coherent whole. John D. Jacobs, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research The Fast-Changing Arctic provides many new perspectives on a traditional understanding of Arctic security. Nikolas Sellheim, The Polar Record