Is it possible for ideas to freeze, to chip, to settle in a snowbank, to blow away in a winter storm? Can ideas be ice? Today, the Arctic is a battleground of competing philosophies; ways to live, to govern, and to relate to others, all struggling to find their footing amongst the shifting tundra. As […]
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Arctic Military Tensions Heat Up, So Does the Ice
Leave it to humanity to commodify the end of the world. The historically peaceful, collaborative Arctic Council is fracturing into militarized disarray. The aggressive militaristic pursuits of Russia and the United States have triggered historically strictly neutral council members to make history by joining NATO, rework their policies, and funnel resources into defense. At the […]
The Arctic Thaw is Cooling West-Russian Relations
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” — Winston Churchill, 1946 Churchill’s oration as Westminster College is considered one of the landmark moments announcing the beginning of the Cold War, a half-century global struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union which redefined […]