The Arctic needs better cross-sector crisis-related collaboration
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that the Arctic Council must hasten its efforts to coordinate different elements of emergency preparedness responses to crises affecting...
Reimagining the future of habitation in Greenland
Despite the fact that urbanization in Greenland was once a tool of Danish colonialism, it is actively employed today by the Greenlandic government to...
Why a warming Arctic needs an investment review mechanism
Increased investment into the Arctic over the coming decades is inevitable. To respond to this, the Arctic’s present international governance structures can be improved...
Why Arctic nations should invest in a network of green ports
Due to melting sea ice, Arctic waters are opening for more business, including in the cargo shipping, tourism, and fishing sectors. But that’s a...
How our new virtual world can empower the Arctic
Sighing deeply over coffee, my friend lamented that 2020 has so far been the “year of cancelation ‘on all levels’” — from small birthday...
As other leagues rethink racist team names, it’s time to rename...
Content warning: This opinion piece names an offensive term applied to some Indigenous Arctic peoples in the course of arguing for its removal.
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Why an Arctic arms race would be a mistake
Most of America’s historic foreign policy blunders were driven by threat inflation. From fake attacks on ships in Havana Harbor or the Gulf of...
The US aid package to Greenland marks a new chapter in...
There are multiple ways to seek to understand what a new aid package from the U.S. to Greenland announced last week means. But one...
How US policy threatens existing Arctic governance
The current international cooperation in the Arctic — and the structures that allow it — have grown in the past few decades. But now...
The US writes, but does not implement, Arctic strategies
The U.S. government wrote a great deal about Arctic strategy in 2019, but it would be nice to see concrete commitments to go along...
