Polar Geopolitics

Russian and Norwegian interests intersect and occasionally collide in the Barents Sea and Svalbard, an Arctic geopolitic... Read more

Communities in the sparsely populated Arctic already faced significant social, economic and public health challenges, an... Read more

Environmental change in the frozen parts of the planet—the Cryosphere—have implications well beyond the polar regions an... Read more

Fresh off the 38thmeeting of CCAMLR that once again failed to achieve consensus on additional marine protected areas, th... Read more

In part two of the interview with Polar Geopolitics, Dr. Annika Nilsson shares her insights into the history and inner-w... Read more

The economic development and political evolution of Greenland, whether remaining within the Kingdom of Denmark or eventu... Read more

Earth system science studies the planet as an array of interacting “spheres” that represent components of a single syste... Read more

A confluence of events in 2007 made the media take major interest in the Arctic, and the geopolitical narrative that eme... Read more

Representatives of Arctic governments recently returned to Greenland to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2008 mee... Read more

In a continent recognized as a global commons, yet where seven states hold frozen claims and others are eager to be seen... Read more

What lessons for contemporary climate adaptation can we learn from the Viking-era Norse settlement on Greenland, which w... Read more

Prof. John P. Holdren is a leader of the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Governmen... Read more

In the midst of an escalating diplomatic crisis between the United States and Denmark, international relations expert Pr... Read more

With energy shipments rapidly expanding and apparent personal chemistry between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the align... Read more

Indigenous communities are facing multiple challenges from a changing climate across the circumpolar North. In this epis... Read more