Unipolarity and Order in the Arctic

Foreword: Rising temperatures

“…Scholars now grapple with not just the prosaic question of what next for Russian ambition in the High North, but also the reality of a new geopolitical scenario for the Arctic. Could it be that the Liberal Arctic Order led by the USA has now been replaced by a US-led North American Arctic challenged by a Russia-and China-dominated Arctic (Bertelsen & Bertelsen & Kobzeva, 2021)? How can/ should this new geopolitical reality be understood, even as the threat of the use of nuclear weapons looms larger than at any point since the end of the Cold War.…”