Posts Under ‘Arctic Treaty’ Category

The Arctic Chessboard

May 20, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in arctic, Arctic Treaty, climate change | 1 comment

Taking note of this news out of Denmark, Time’s Ecocentric blog wondered, Is the scramble over the North Pole back on? As I discussed here, the scramble has been on for a few years already. I call it the global warming = Arctic geopolitical hot spot narrative. Over at the Natural Security blog, the wonks have…Continue Reading…

The New Treaty and Arctic Gamesmanship

May 16, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in arctic, Arctic Treaty | No comments

Last month, I wrote this post, laying out the global warming = Arctic geopolitical hot spot narrative. So it’s not exactly news to me that the latest batch of cables released by Wikileaks show, as the BBC reported, that nations are racing to “carve up” Arctic resources – oil, gas and even rubies – as…Continue Reading…