Waseem Khokhar

Melting frontier: Great power competition in the Arctic from polar periphery to geopolitical epicenter

For most of the post-Cold War era, the Arctic was governed as an exception to great-power politics: a “zone of peace” in which scientific cooperation, not strategic rivalry, set the tone. That exception is closing. As Arctic Amplification strips away the ice that once made the region marginal, it is exposing a geograph...