Conflict or Cooperation? Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change

• Main Author: Ruby, Byron
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; climate change; conflict; war; Paul Huth; dyads; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Peace & Conflict Studies; Environmental Science; Policy; & Management; Canada; Lanes; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6z7864c7

This paper is an attempt to answer the question “could there be conflict – in particular, armed conflict – in the Arctic over disputed territory and claims of sovereignty?” In recent years, as climate change has thawed the ice in the northern regions, the prospect of new shipping lanes through once...