Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79

This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79 The Arctic region has experienced a rapid transformation during the last few years as unprecedented ice melts caught ice scientists and climatologists by surprise, suggesting that a period of rapid climate change had arr...

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Main Author: Zellen, Barry S.
Other Authors: Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC), Center for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) Monterey, California, Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
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Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2010
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spelling ftnavalpschool:oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/11523 2024-06-09T07:42:42+00:00 Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79 Zellen, Barry S. Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC) Center for Contemporary Conflict Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) Monterey, California Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC) 2010 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10945/11523 unknown Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School Strategic Insights, v.9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79 Strategic Insights, 2002-2010 Strategic Insights https://hdl.handle.net/10945/11523 This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. Article 2010 ftnavalpschool 2024-05-15T00:58:38Z This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79 The Arctic region has experienced a rapid transformation during the last few years as unprecedented ice melts caught ice scientists and climatologists by surprise, suggesting that a period of rapid climate change had arrived in the polar region, precipitating earlier and historically unprecedented ice meltsï¾—including the first opening of both the Northwest Passage in North America and the Northern Sea Route along the Eurasian Arctic coast. As these extreme changes to the Arctic landscape (transforming an icescape to a navigable maritime domain for part of the year) take place, there has been concern that a race for resources might precipitate a period of state conflict in the region. Increased economic, military and diplomatic activity in the Arctic will bring the long-isolated indigenous peoples of the Far North into closer and more frequent contact with the modern state, testing the new systems of self-governance conceptualized and negotiated in a more static time where traditional conditions of deep freeze had long been the norm. This paper will examine the political modernization of the Inuit and their integration into the political fabric of the modern state through a mosaic of bilateral land claims and self-government processes that more closely bind them to the states that lay sovereign claim to their homeland, and consider how the thawing of the long-frozen Arctic will affect them, and their new relationships with the modern states along the Arctic basin. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Basin Arctic Climate change Faroe Islands Greenland Iceland inuit North Atlantic Northern Sea Route Northwest passage Naval Postgraduate School: Calhoun Arctic Faroe Islands Greenland Northwest Passage
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description This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79 The Arctic region has experienced a rapid transformation during the last few years as unprecedented ice melts caught ice scientists and climatologists by surprise, suggesting that a period of rapid climate change had arrived in the polar region, precipitating earlier and historically unprecedented ice meltsï¾—including the first opening of both the Northwest Passage in North America and the Northern Sea Route along the Eurasian Arctic coast. As these extreme changes to the Arctic landscape (transforming an icescape to a navigable maritime domain for part of the year) take place, there has been concern that a race for resources might precipitate a period of state conflict in the region. Increased economic, military and diplomatic activity in the Arctic will bring the long-isolated indigenous peoples of the Far North into closer and more frequent contact with the modern state, testing the new systems of self-governance conceptualized and negotiated in a more static time where traditional conditions of deep freeze had long been the norm. This paper will examine the political modernization of the Inuit and their integration into the political fabric of the modern state through a mosaic of bilateral land claims and self-government processes that more closely bind them to the states that lay sovereign claim to their homeland, and consider how the thawing of the long-frozen Arctic will affect them, and their new relationships with the modern states along the Arctic basin.
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title Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79
title_short Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79
title_full Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79
title_fullStr Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79
title_full_unstemmed Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland; Strategic Insights, v. 9, issue 2 (Fall 2010) pp. 53-79
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