The United States, China, and the Emerging Balance of Power in the Arctic

• Main Author: Lavengood, Zachary Colin
• Other Authors: Hornát, Jan, Raška, Francis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd 2019
• Subjects: Arktida; Mocenská Rovnováha; Realismus; Čína; Spojené Státy Americké; arktická námořní přeprava; arktické nerostné surovioy; Arctic; Balance of Power; Realism; China; United States of America; Arctic Shipping; Arctic Resources; Lanes; Climate change; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/107939

The increasing pace of climate change in the last two decades has brought the Arctic, a former geopolitical afterthought, into growing prominence on the global stage. Receding ice and melting tundra have made a cornucopia of rare earth metals and hydrocarbons ripe for extraction as well as opened ne...