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Dr Elizabeth Buchanan

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order #RedArctic :

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flashback to NATO’s 1980s Forward Maritime Strategy should deterrence fail for the Alliance.

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Suffren-Class: France Now Has One of Best Nuclear Submarines on Earth

The Suffren-class submarines were developed to replace the existing Rubis-class and Amethyste-class boats and provide France with an enhanced sub-surface attack capability.

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felt cute, joined the Royal Australian Navy. THRILLED to share I am Head of Research for Navy over at @SeaPowerCentre ! looking forward to enhancing maritime domain awareness, examining hybrid maritime warfare in the Indo-Pacific & the role of the Polar Regions in maritime orders.

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Indo-Pacific submarine cable map 🗺️

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Aussie war plans leaked

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France Joins #AUKUS Submarine Program: it is “understood that Canada will not be allowed to join FUKUS for common decency reasons”

France Joins AUKUS Submarine Program - Naval News

Under extended plans, France will join the AUKUS submarine program. This will see advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines built for Australia, United Kingdom and France.

www.navalnews.com

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Thrilled to announce 📣 parents are the best.

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Liechtenstein drops an Indo-Pacific Strategy - a 🧵

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🇰🇷 National Security Strategy drops

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SUBMARINE CABLES: you’ve seen those maps - now see cables up close

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I have heard and read a lot about the submarine data cables in the Arctic but haven’t really touched one before.

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Security Studies; International Relations; Military-Industrial Complex; Strategic Studies

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🚨 thrilled to announce I have landed my first @ForeignPolicy Magazine Feature 🚨 international print fall issue to include my essay on #Antarctic geopolitics

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I stepped off the #academic ladder today. will share a personal news tweet, at a later date. right now, time to reflect on my experience in Australian security & IR academia.🧵

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Why Academics Are Writing Junk That Nobody Reads

intellectualtakeout.org

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when the Indian Ocean was all the rage in 1970:

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Galley day @BrookingsPress @RLPGBooks order 👇🏻👇🏻

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the only SSN argument graphic we need.

John Blaxland SFHEA FRSN

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This perspective might help

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🍾 I’ve joined @ASPI_org as a Senior Fellow focused on bits & bobs in the #AusDef sector.

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“There is no rules based order - just a power based order” - Hugh White #aiia2022

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Forward Strategy for the 1980s

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super happy to announce I’ve joined the 🇫🇷 Ministry of Armed Forces’ Institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire @IRSEM1 as an Associate Researcher ✍️.

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horrific gutting of Arts & Social Sciences. just last yr I co-authored a report commissioned for the Australian Office of National Intelligence (ONI) - on behalf of the National Intelligence Community (NIC) - to examine HASS sig for 🇦🇺 national intelligence sector 👇🏻

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great read 👇🏻

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instead of getting upset abt a retired Australian male emailing a publication I wrote for to "bring to attention" the fact that I am *not* Australia's foremost Russia (nor Antarctic) expert & requesting they not publish my work anymore....🤣

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*SCREAMS IN SEATO* NATO a good model for Indo-Pacific

NATO a good model for Indo-Pacific: US military commander

Australia’s defence chief said he looked forward to discussing China’s accusation with his Beijing counterpart “when he might next wish to speak with me”.

www.afr.com

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officially signed with @yalepress 💥 #Arctic #Antarctica + resource insecurity (data & 🎣) + great power competition = interesting statecraft at the seams of this trinity in 100,000 words or less.

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Australia’s enhanced lethality surface combatant fleet

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L-R: Strategic Studies, Security Studies, International Affairs.

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Australia and France agree on reciprocal Pacific military base access

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#Perspective

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“The Race to the South Pole, a game of Exceptional Interest” c.1913

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Excited to kick off the 2020's with @Deakin as a Lecturer in Strategic Studies with the Defence and Strategic Studies Course (DSSC) at the Australian War College @ADC_Australia . Time to bolster 🇦🇺 research into Arctic & Antarctic geopolitics and Russian international strategy.

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Upon telling James I felt like an imposter to be Head of Navy Research at this stage of my career, James told me I am just what Navy needs today. Not convinced, I told him "I know little of the naval nuts and bolts and I am more maritime/IR" to which he smirked and said "good".

Sea Power Centre - Australia

@SeaPowerCentre

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Farewell James Goldrick James was a force for good across many areas of endeavour. For the Sea Power Centre - Australia he was an influential leader and enduring mentor. While we no longer follow in his wake, we will continue to serve in the manner James exemplified.

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Maritime trade in the Pacific, 1938

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lessons learnt in Teamwork 88: ✅ weather / persistent fog makes High North battle harder ✅ subs will provide a decisive edge ✅ primacy of safeguarding the Atlantic link relates to NATOs presence in Norwegian waters ✅ battle for the Fjords will be the key factor in control…

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special delivery 📦 & at a slightly lower price point to #AUKUS submarines! #RedArctic is here @BrookingsPress @RLPGBooks

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TLDR: do that PhD, write books, publish articles because you genuinely want to. Don't make it your identity. If lucky enough to pay bills doing something you are passionate about, go for it. define your own version of success (the system isn't geared to) and redefine it often.

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don’t say Canberra doesn’t do fun 🥳

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#AUKUS can be discussed by women too. some of us can even tell you what it stands for. a few can even spell it.

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the @EU_Commission has selected my #JeanMonnet research project for funding - "EUPOLE: The EU as a global polar power". I will strategically assess the potential for the EU to be a global polar actor wrt EU identity & strategic cultures in/around/towards the #Arctic & #Antarctic

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8 years ago we lived in my @anuces office, complete with cot and powered together through the PhD. We lobbied the university to install change tables and normalised 👶🏽 in tutorials. #Putin is still around and you don’t fit on my desk anymore, yet, we’ve come a long way, baby. 1/

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Minister: Estonia, Finland to integrate coastal missile defense systems | News | ERR

Minister: Estonia, Finland to integrate coastal missile defense systems

Finland and Estonia will integrate their coastal missile defense which would allow the countries to close the Gulf of Finland to Russian warships if necessary, Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur...

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HUGE. President of the 🇷🇺 #Arctic Social Sciences Academy charged with treason. "Mitko gave China information on research on hydro acoustics and submarine detection methods". Reminder that China & Russia are indeed competitors & far from an 'Arctic axis'

Russian Arctic Academy president accused of working for Chinese intelligence

Valery Mitko was charged with treason

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stupidly happy to announce I've signed a contract with @BlackIncBooks for my next book - 'How to lose a continent'. a tale of cold, hard realism in #Antarctica .

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🎉 book launch day 🎉 #Russian Energy Strategy in the Asia-Pacific: implications for Australia open access & free (!) downloads because @ANU_Press is legendary. 👉🏻

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thrilled to announce I am on the (job) market. reach out & feel free to share with your friends and/or enemies. #natsec #securitystudies

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some #DSR23 framing context: 1938 Australia at the centre of the four quarters of the earth. #geography

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…of sea coms foundational to Western security ✅ ASW strike forces most impressive feat is the international character possible - many units/states under one command ✅ “as confrontations in Europe winds down maintaining correct balance between deterrence and reassurance…

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turns out sovereignty does matter 👇🏻 Philippines abandons joint energy exploration talks with China - Nikkei Asia

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this #IWD2023 🚺 I can’t offer cupcakes or a breakfast speech - but I can provide a list of epic #Australian women raising the bar in natsec, security & strategic studies👇🏻

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Soviet take on the US “geographical escalation” concept is fascinating

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my latest for @ForeignPolicy 👇🏻tldr: Russia and China’s partnership in the north is primarily driven by business, not politics @Deakin @AustraliaDssc @WarInstitute

There Is No Arctic Axis

Russia and China’s partnership in the north is primarily driven by business, not politics.

foreignpolicy.com

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1986 ft. one of the worlds strategic choke points: The Bass Strait

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morning @FinancialReview read: my #AUKUS & our national strategic/security psyche pub 💥

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AUKUS pillar IV announced: high-speed rail between Sydney & Canberra.

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hard copies 🥳 @ANU_Press

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@ProfPaulPoast Constructivist: the balloon is what we make of it

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no one: women in natsec roles: satchel bags

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India, Oz bring critical minerals into strategic ties - Times of India

India Business News: India and Australia are expanding their strategic ties to critical minerals in a bid to create a bulwark against China’s dominance over raw materials

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some personal news to confirm:

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THREAD: intel sources in Moscow chat to me about Putin’s frame of mind, plans & star sign. as we head into week 3 of this current iteration of the 🇷🇺🇺🇦 War: here’s a how it ends. 1/15

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I have decided to share a few hot tips to help others wanting to work in Australia's security academic sphere. (also full disclosure: I plan to continue writing on Russia & on polar security issues, without permission).

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“Strategy without nuclear powered submarines is the slowest route to victory. Nuclear powered submarines without strategy is the noise before defeat” - Sun Tzu

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Canadian military found Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic - Operation Limpid

Canadian military found Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic

Former lieutenant-general says devices likely used to monitor U.S. nuclear submarine traffic

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thrilled to have my book promoted in the most recent @ForeignAffairs print edition! use the code & order (pls help me feed my children) @BrookingsPress @RLPGBooks 🎉

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…will be main challenge facing the western alliance as a whole” ✅ a fundamentally defensive strategy that “subtly integrates initiative and the latent threat of operational offence to constrain the offensive options of a pot. attacker” matters.

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@timgill924 I've started to slow down, out of respect for the rest of the field.

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THRILLLLED to announce my Edited Special Issue of @ThePolarJournal has dropped online (open access): "All Quiet on the Southern Front? Revisiting #Antarctic Competition" 🧵

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Australian Financial Review today on Australia’s strategic white out in #Antarctica

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Allan Gyngell - someone who saw shades of grey and dealt with it accordingly - was also a kind man with whom I shared many ⁦ @AIIANational ⁩ dinners. Allan would always want to know who I’d ruffled the feathers of (& how) since we last spoke. Vale.

Allan Gyngell remembered as ‘finest mind’ in foreign policy

Spymaster, prime ministerial adviser, diplomat and thinker Allan Gyngell has died after a short battle with cancer.

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Biden to unveil nuclear submarine partnership with Britain, Australia: “in an unprecedented three-way”

Biden to unveil nuclear submarine partnership with Britain, Australia

In a bid to project advanced Western naval power in the Pacific, Australia will commit more than $100 billion to buying U.S. and British-designed subs and investing in shipbuilding capacity.

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Abe’s side eye is everything

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home schooling sounded far too quiet: upon investigation 👇🏻

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discover your local newsagent folks

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perhaps the worlds greatest preface. #Brodie 1942 “A Layman’s Guide to Naval Strategy”

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Ottawa’s 1987 White Paper on Defense recommended that the Royal Canadian Navy acquire 12 nuclear-powered submarines capable of navigating under the ice and defending its sovereignty in the Arctic region

Royal Canadian Navy wants 12 submarines worth $60 Billion to defend the Arctic

The Canadian Navy desires to replace the four British-made submarines it acquired in 1999. The English had sold the Canadian submarines rusting in dry dock since 1993. Pakistan, Portugal, and Chile...

frontierindia.com

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overheard in the Canberra cafe bubble: “can’t believe we aren’t getting aircraft carriers”

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one of the highlights of my career so far: chairing @jensstoltenberg only public event in Canberra, 🇦🇺, 2019. discussion of #climate as a threat multiplier has shifted to climate as a stand alone threat. great to see @NATO ’s new Strategic Concept putting climate on the agenda.

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watching 20 kids smash nuggets & chips before heading out to share germs & disorder in the ball-pit as every single parent here is talking 🇷🇺 coup is def peak Canberra.

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my @ForeignAffairs essay on Antarctic geopolitics. I have a piece forthcoming which responds to our narrow conception of 🇨🇳 activity in Antarctica - mainly a response to those who come at me for being “hawkish” but it’s really about defending their bad advice to gov over decades.

Foreign Affairs

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“The return of great-power competition is bringing new instability to the South Pole.” Read @BuchananLiz on what policymakers can do to protect Antarctica from international contests over resources:

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my feature essay for @ForeignAffairs on #Antarctic strategic competition 👇🏻

Great-Power Competition Comes to Antarctica

China’s scientific push tests the continent’s stability.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Australia has a particular brand of academic bullying in security studies/IR & it is something we should shine light on so it can no longer evade accountability. our 'champions of change' aren't stepping in early enough. diversity = contestation of ideas = agile security thinking

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@SeaPowerCentre pitch fest: once a month I’ll be calling for short policy brief ideas 💡 broadly related to #maritime security & #naval strategy - Australian maritime strategy/Indo-Pac maritime security etc. ✍️ editorial support ✍️ 1500 word output ✍️ defence engagement

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don’t usually share my fan mail - gives oxygen etc etc but this has a number of moving parts 🤯

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Eye on China: Japan launches first full aircraft carrier since WWII

Eye on China: Japan launches first full aircraft carrier since WWII - Times of India

Rest of World News: Japan has achieved a noteworthy milestone in its military modernization efforts by converting the warship Kaga into the country's inaugural full-fledg

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proud day for our little household @ChiefAusArmy 🤝

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Apply! 🇬🇧 RN Strategic Studies Centre is a great place to think about the world. I am honoured to be the inaugural Five Eyes 1st Sea Lord Fellow - read my feature here.

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uncle, three cans deep: “submarines are built thicker in the southern hemisphere because we have more salt in the ocean here which means the water is harder to move through”

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🇩🇪 suspends #NordStream2 & then buys even more 🇷🇺 gas for another line. 👇🏻

Javier Blas

@JavierBlas

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For the first time in 67 days, Germany is buying Russian gas via the Yamal-Europe pipeline (throughout Belarous and Poland). The Mallnow pumping station is showing positive flows (chart). Since December 21, Gazprom had only shipped gas into Germany via NordStream 1 | #Ukraine

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Lithuania drops Indo-Pacific Strategy

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pls order my book, even get one for ya Mum: Red #Arctic via @BrookingsInst

Red Arctic | Brookings

Explaining why a new cold war over the Arctic is not inevitable The Arctic is a global bellwether for climate change and indigenous peoples’ rights and traditions, as well as a “health check” on the...

www.brookings.edu

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@MarkGaleotti

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THRILLED to share I’ve joined @JanesINTEL as a contributor for #Arctic & #Antarctic affairs. I grew up reading Janes & am floored at the opportunity to join their ranks.

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Joint statement by France and Australia - 🇫🇷🇦🇺 looking forward to implementing these plans 💪🏻

Joint statement by France and Australia

www.elysee.fr

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I will be working on polar warfare & Russian Antarctic/Arctic interests this year @WestPoint_USMA @WarInstitute . 🇦🇺 also represented by @Mick_Cook in this year’s cohort! stay tuned for views from down under & some innovative research projects @USAembassyinOZ

Modern War Institute

@WarInstitute

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We're pleased to announce the newest cohort of Modern War Institute Scholars and Fellows!

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Red Arctic | Brookings

Explaining why a new cold war over the Arctic is not inevitable The Arctic is a global bellwether for climate change and indigenous peoples’ rights and traditions, as well as a “health check” on the...

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