Arctic.Security.in.an.Age.of.Climate.Change.James.Kraska.1107006600.pdf

arctic security in an age of climate change
This is the first book to examine Arctic defense policy and military security from the
perspective of all eight Arctic states. In light of climate change and melting ice in the
Arctic Ocean, Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, and the United States,
as well as Iceland, Sweden, and Finland, are grappling with an emerging Arctic security
paradigm. This volume brings together the world’s most seasoned Arctic political-military
experts from Europe and North America to analyze how Arctic nations are adapting their
security postures to modate increased shipping, expanding naval presence, and
energy and mineral development in the polar region. The book analyzes the ascent of
Russia as the first “Arctic superpower,” the growing importance of polar security for
NATO and the Nordic states, and the increasing role of Canada and the United States
in the region.
Dr. James Kraska serves as the Howard S. Levie Chair of Operational Law at the .
Naval War College, where he also teaches on the faculty of the International Law
Department. Kraska is mander and judge advocate in the . Navy. He has
served as legal adviser to joint and naval task manders in the Asia-Pacific and
pleted four Pentagon major staff assignments. He was the principal military
contributor to the president’s . Arctic Region Policy, and he coordinated Arctic
issues and law of the sea for the armed forces at the National Security Council and
International anization. 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
Edited by
JAMES KRAS