Have you heard the one about the disappearing ice? Recasting Arctic geopolitics

Political Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 202-214

  Dittmer, Jason ^a   Moisio, Sami ^b   Ingram, Alan ^a   Dodds, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geopolitics; Performance; Security; The Arctic

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; SOVEREIGNTY; STATE BUILDING; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE; TERRITORIALITY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 79958270472     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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