Book Review- New Work Details The Fading Promise Of A Peaceful Arctic And How It Affects The Region’s Future – ‘Unfrozen - The Fight For The Future Of The Arctic’
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https://www.adn.com/arts/books/2026/10/03/book-review-new-work-details-the-fading-promise-of-a-peaceful-arctic-and-how-it-affects-the-regions-future/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.edrmagazine.eu/whats-the-future-of-the-arctic-region <-- shared technical article, ‘European Defence Review’
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https://esthinktank.com/2025/03/19/event-the-future-of-arctic-governance-balancing-strategic-interests-and-environmental-challenges/ <-- shared technical article
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H/T @Klaus Dodds | Faculty Dean, public speaker, geopolitical analyst, and strategic adviser.
“The story they tell is one of conflicting interests, outside involvement, rapidly escalating climate change, resources rushes, resumed militarization and political shifts that tore at the fabric of the northern concordance that once seemed so promising, leaving uncertainty and perilous standoffs in its wake.”
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“… In 1996 the Arctic Council was formed, composed of the United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland, as well as Indigenous organizations representing the Inuit, Athabascan, Saami, Aleut, Gwich’in and Indigenous peoples of the Russian north.
In the headily optimistic days of the 1990s, when liberal democratic governance and the free movement of goods and peoples seemed to be the fate of all the world, the term “Arctic Exceptionalism” emerged. The North, it was proclaimed, was indeed a zone of peace, setting an example for all the world to follow.
Within a few years it all came tumbling down.
How a promise all but taken for granted proved to be little more than empty words is the topic of [this book]…
The story [the authors] tell is one of conflicting interests, outside involvement, rapidly escalating climate change, resources rushes, resumed militarization and political shifts that tore at the fabric of the northern concordance that once seemed so promising, leaving uncertainty and perilous standoffs in its wake…”
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