Co-authored by Paul Arthur Berkman, Lloyd N. Axworthy, and Oran R. YoungUkraine escalates urgency to prevent an Arctic Cold War.
Already events are moving in dangerous directions, undermining decades of east-west cooperation that have established the high north as a region of low tensions. As the U.S. resumes chairmanship of the Arctic Council for a two-year term starting on 24 April 2015, the ball is squarely in President Barack Obama’s court to provide statesmanship needed for the Arctic as a zone of peace. Spitsbergen archipelago (76o55’N, 16o17’E), Arctic Ocean, in 2012. The Spitsbergen Treaty, signed in 1920, …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
