Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change

Dr James Kraska serves as the Howard S. Levie Chair in Operational Law at the US Naval War College, where he also teaches on the faculty of the International Law Department. Kraska is a commander and judge advocate in the US Navy who served as legal adviser to joint and naval task force commanders in the Asia-Pacific and completed four Pentagon major staff assignments. He was the principal military contributor to the president's US Arctic Region Policy, and he coordinated Arctic issues and Law of the Sea for the armed forces at the National Security Council and International Maritime Organization. Author of Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea (2011), Kraska also holds appointments as Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and as Guest Investigator at the Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In 2010, he was selected for the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement by the Navy League of the United States.

'Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change is an articulate, flowing and comprehensive commentary on the real and complex Arctic 'state of play', and hence, a breath of fresh air into the academic debate … One innovation of the book is that each chapter explores a particular national or global viewpoint … This book explores all the angles and is an excellent resource for getting familiar with an internal and external perspective.' Tavis Potts, International Journal of the Society for Underwater Technology

• Part I. Introduction - Circumpolar Perspectives: 1. Arctic security: the indirect approach Franklyn Griffiths; 2. The challenges and security issues of Arctic marine transport Lawson Brigham; 3. Arctic meltdown and its implications for shipping and ports in Asia Joshua Ho; Part II. European Security Interests in the Arctic: 4. Arctic security and Norway Rolf Tamnes; 5. Norway and the Arctic: between multilateral governance and geopolitics Geir Flikke; 6. Military aspects of Russia's policy: hard power and natural resources Katarzyna Zysk; 7. The next geographical pivot: the Russian Arctic in the twenty-first century Caitlyn Antrim; 8. The rise of the Arctic on the global stage Pauli Järvenpää and Tomas Ries; 9. The Arctic challenge to Danish foreign and security policy Nikolaj Petersen; 10. Arctic security - a Greenland perspective Adam Worm; 11. Territorial discourses and identity politics: Iceland's role in the Arctic Valur Ingimundarson; Part III. North American Security Interests in the Arctic: 12. Canada's security and foreign policy in the Arctic Robert Huebert; 13. Polar race or polar saga? Canada and the circumpolar world Whitney Lackenbauer; 14. American security in the Arctic James Kraska; 15. Arctic security considerations and the US Navy's roadmap for the Arctic David W. Titley and Courtney St John.