Making the case for the controversial Davis Aerodrome in East Antarctica
Australia’s plans to build a 2.7 km airstrip and other infrastructure in the ice-free Vestfold Hills near its Davis Station in East Antarctica have be...
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Science and geopolitics in Svalbard: the Ny-Ålesund Research Station
Hosting scientific facilities representing 12 countries, the Ny-Ålesund Research Station in Svalbard is perhaps the most international location in the...
Assessing the future of Arctic shipping in the wake of the Suez Canal incident
Could the incident of the Ever Given running aground in the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade for six days, be a turning point that leads to an expa...
Interregnum No More: A Realist Perspective on the Geopolitics of the Arctic over the past 40 years
On this episode, Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe—an Arctic, Russia and Cold War expert at Loughborough University in England—analyses the emerging great p...
Prognosticating U.S. polar policies and geopolitics under the Biden administration
Dr. Mike Sfraga, director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., joins the podcast to discuss the various ways he sees the Bi...
Pandemic 2020 and the polar regions: The geopolitical year in review with Prof. Klaus Dodds
The rise of great power competition in the Arctic, the disruption of Antarctic governance due to COVID-19, and the impact of the coronavirus on vulner...
Beyond the Science Criterion: Reconsidering Antarctic governance in an era of climate change
Science is to a large extent the currency of governance and geopolitics in Antarctica, giving countries that conduct scientific research there a seat ...
China’s polar strategy at a crossroads: Pursue paradigms of the 19th century past, or envision a sustainable future
China’s increasingly ambitious polar activities have to date largely centered on exerting physical presence in the Arctic and Antarctic, according to ...
Asian engagement in the Arctic: Evolving strategies and activities of Asian Arctic Council observer states
The admission of China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea as observers to the Arctic Council in 2013 seemed a turning point in contemporary Arct...
The return of great power competition: American geopolitical engagement in the Arctic, with D.A.S. Michael J. Murphy of the U.S. State Department
The opening of a US Consulate in Nuuk, Greenland represents the latest in a series of moves that signal a deepening geopolitical engagement in the Arc...