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Arctic geopolitics

Arctic geopolitics

  • Date20 May 2021

Arctic geopolitics, Lecture - 21st June

Great power competition and the contested governance of the High North - Professor Klaus Dodds

The Arctic summary Arctic Geopolitics Activity

This StoryMap introduces the Central Arctic Ocean and North Pole, historical exploration of the area and current day issues including: Sea ice decline, Indigenous peoples and sea ice, Inuit and the Arctic Ocean as homeland, Protecting the Central Arctic Ocean, Science at the North Pole, Who owns the Arctic?, Geopolitics at the North Pole, Cold War rivalries in and under the North Pole, Operation Sunshine and Hollywood and Cold War submarine rivalries, 50 years of Victory - one of the largest nuclear-powered icebreakers, Who lives at the North Pole? and Further Resources.

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