Projecting absence: a decade of US Arctic intelligence, policy, and perceptions of Russia
Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016 The U.S. government engaged in Arctic security and politics at a low level throughout early 2000s, while the Russian government was quite active in it Arctic region during this timeframe. Using text, data and visual analysis tools, this research con...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/6638 2023-05-15T14:20:20+02:00 Projecting absence: a decade of US Arctic intelligence, policy, and perceptions of Russia Raymond, Vanessa Lee Boylan, Brandon Hirsch, Alexander Ehrlander, Mary 2016-05 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6638 en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6638 Arctic and Northern Studies Program Thesis ma 2016 ftunivalaska 2023-02-23T21:36:42Z Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016 The U.S. government engaged in Arctic security and politics at a low level throughout early 2000s, while the Russian government was quite active in it Arctic region during this timeframe. Using text, data and visual analysis tools, this research conducts content analysis, sentiment analysis and mapping on U.S. Arctic intelligence documents released through Wikileaks. It compares patterns found in the content of intelligence documents with content and sentiment patterns found in U.S. Arctic policy to correlate a shared perception of Russian Arctic engagement. Research findings indicate that the dialogue about Russian engagement in the Arctic in the early 2000s in both the intelligence community (IC) and policy-making communities attribute a low level of threat to U.S. national security with regard to Arctic issues. These findings may contribute to the lack of U.S. engagement in the Arctic leading up to the Crimean/Ukraine conflict. Thesis Arctic Arctic Alaska University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Arctic Fairbanks |
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Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2016 The U.S. government engaged in Arctic security and politics at a low level throughout early 2000s, while the Russian government was quite active in it Arctic region during this timeframe. Using text, data and visual analysis tools, this research conducts content analysis, sentiment analysis and mapping on U.S. Arctic intelligence documents released through Wikileaks. It compares patterns found in the content of intelligence documents with content and sentiment patterns found in U.S. Arctic policy to correlate a shared perception of Russian Arctic engagement. Research findings indicate that the dialogue about Russian engagement in the Arctic in the early 2000s in both the intelligence community (IC) and policy-making communities attribute a low level of threat to U.S. national security with regard to Arctic issues. These findings may contribute to the lack of U.S. engagement in the Arctic leading up to the Crimean/Ukraine conflict. |
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