Silencing the screaming — The discovery of rare earth metals in Sweden

Reindeer in a Saami camp. © Isabell Schulz  Dr Nikolas Sellheim Director, Sellheim Environmental Fellow, Polar Research and Policy Initiative

Third Pole’s View on the North Pole – India’s Arctic Policy

Kanagavalli Suryanarayanan The Arctic Policy of India, titled ‘India’s Arctic Policy: Building a Partnership for Sustainable Development’, has been published

Coronavirus Observatory: Tracking the Pandemic in the Arctic and the Antarctic

The Arctic Council Goes Back to Basics

Press Conference of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Icelandic Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarsson

A RARE Opportunity: How Greenland came to be central to the Biden Presidency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Greenlandic Minister of Foreign Affairs, Business, Trade, and Climate Pele Broberg; Faroese Minister of

Greenland in the Middle: The Latest Front in a Great Power Rivalry

Image by Bernd Hildebrandt from Pixabay Mingming Shi and Marc Lanteigne Under normal circumstances, the announcement of an American foreign

China’s Coronavirus Diplomacy?

Image by Terri Sharp from Pixabay. Prof Ilan Kelman Professor of Disasters and Health, University College London, UK Professor II,

Is this the End of the Arctic Council and Arctic Governance as we know it?

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, on May 7,

Trade, Canada’s Territories and the Arctic Council’s Asian Observers

Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau at the 44th G7 summit. (Government of

Takeaways from the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 7 May 2019.

The GCC-Russia-China LNG Triangle and Role of Transnational Knowledge Networks: Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen (Professor, Barents Chair in Politics, University of Tromsø), with Tero Vauraste (Chair of the Arctic Economic Council)

The Need to Consider Chinese Tourism in Antarctica

China’s Great Wall station, Antarctica (Source: Panoramio). Max Daniels Chinese foreign policy is receiving ever more attention in Western policy

India as a Polar Stakeholder: Interview with Dr M Ravichandran

India’s new Antarctic research station, Bharati. (Courtesy of Boo Architekten and NCAOR.) Hriday Ch Sarma Hriday Sarma, India Fellow at

Yours, Mine or Ours? The Kvanefjeld Multi-Element Project in Narsaq, Greenland

Narsaq, Greenland. © jtstewart By Mariel Kieval Introduction Climate change has already begun to take a toll on the amount

Growing Alaskan-Chinese Trade at Risk from Trade War

Source: ADFG By Liz Bowman and Brooks Kaiser The escalating trade war between China and the US may force Alaskan

The Security Implications of China-Greenland Relations

By Kenty Dubois and Alessandro Gagaridis Introduction After the Cold War, the security context in the Arctic has been characterised

The Release of China’s Arctic Policy: Translating the Significance

After many years of anticipation, China has released an official government policy on the Arctic. The white paper was presented

The Arctic Between Hype and Reality

By Henry Bartelet and Kenty Dubois As the climate is warming and the ice is melting, the Arctic has regained

Cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic

This presentation was delivered at the 2016 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik by Professor Valery Konyshev, Professor at the School of

BRICS in the Arctic: Views on the Arctic Circle Assembly Panel, by Sergio Trindade

The fourth Arctic Circle Assembly took place in Reykjavík on 7-9 October 2016. More than 2 thousand people attended. This