The deployment of subsea data cables across different marine areas of the circumpolar North has become a significant development in discussions of Arctic geopolitics. Meanwhile security concerns over subsea infrastructure have become heightened by recent incidents involving the disruption and destruction of energy pipelines and telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea. Nima Khorrami, a research associate at the Arctic Institute, joins the podcast to explain why data cables are crucial for the economic development of the Arctic, and how the expansion of subsea infrastructure entails the need for an enhanced security presence in the region, perhaps on the part of NATO. The episode also includes a discussion on the recent announcement that Dubai-based DP World will partner with Russia in developing the Northern Sea Route, and whether this signals a new interest in the Arctic among middle eastern countries such as the United Arab Emirates.
Brazil and the Antarctic Geopolitics of South America
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Science and geopolitics in Svalbard: the Ny-Ålesund Research Station
Assessing the future of Arctic shipping in the wake of the Suez Canal incident
Interregnum No More: A Realist Perspective on the Geopolitics of the Arctic over the past 40 years
Prognosticating U.S. polar policies and geopolitics under the Biden administration
Pandemic 2020 and the polar regions: The geopolitical year in review with Prof. Klaus Dodds
Beyond the Science Criterion: Reconsidering Antarctic governance in an era of climate change
China’s polar strategy at a crossroads: Pursue paradigms of the 19th century past, or envision a sustainable future
Asian engagement in the Arctic: Evolving strategies and activities of Asian Arctic Council observer states
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
Governance disrupted: Pandemic impacts on Antarctica
Barents Sea and Svalbard: Norway-Russia relations in an Arctic geopolitical hotspot
Crisis as opportunity: China and coronavirus diplomacy in the Arctic
Risks to Arctic Communities from the Coronavirus
Russia, China and the Arctic: Strategic partnership, strategic mistrust?
Northern Sea Route: Embodiment of Russia's interests and ambitions in the Arctic
The Geopolitics of the "Polar"
Securing the Canadian Arctic with Brigadier General Patrick Carpentier, Commander of Joint Task Force North
Resilient Regime at 60: An international law perspective on the ATS
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