Arctic Imperative

Author : Shelagh D. Grant
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1553656180

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Polar Imperative by Shelagh D. Grant Pdf

Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions. This engaging, timely history examines: the unfolding implications of major climate changes the impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoples the current high-stakes game for control over the adjacent waters of Alaska, Arctic Canada and Greenland the events, issues and strategies that have influenced claims to authority over the lands and waters of the North American Arctic, from the arrival of the first inhabitants around 3,000 BCE to the present sovereignty from a comparative point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic This book will become a standard reference on Arctic history and will redefine North Americans’ understanding of the sovereign rights and responsibilities of Canada’s northernmost region.

Author : John Honderich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:X001282532

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Arctic Imperative by John Honderich Pdf

Claims of Canada's piecemeal approach to the far North, failing to recognize that issues which have been dealt with separately - sovereignty, security, economic development, star wars - require integration into a comprehensive policy. Argues persuasively that the time has come for such integration.

Author : Barry Scott Zellen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313380136

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Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom by Barry Scott Zellen Pdf

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met. A growing number of scientists estimate that there will be no summer ice in the Arctic by as soon as 2013. Are we approaching the "End of the Arctic?" as journalist Ed Struzik asked in 1992, or fully entering the "Age of the Arctic," as Arctic expert Oran Young predicted in 1986? Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic looks at the uncertainty at the top of the world as the shrinking of the polar ice cap opens up new sea lanes and the vast hydrocarbon riches of the Arctic seafloor to commercial development and creates environmental disasters for Arctic biota and indigenous peoples. Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom explores the geopolitics of the Arctic from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective, showing how the warming of the Earth is transforming our very conception of the Arctic. In addition to addressing economic and environmental issues, the book also considers the vital strategic role of the region in our nation's defenses.

Author : Richard Rohmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060804831

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The Arctic Imperative by Richard Rohmer Pdf

Author : Dawn Alexandrea Berry,Nigel Bowles,Halbert Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137493910

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Governing the North American Arctic by Dawn Alexandrea Berry,Nigel Bowles,Halbert Jones Pdf

Though it has been home for centuries to indigenous peoples who have mastered its conditions, the Arctic has historically proven to be a difficult region for governments to administer. Extreme temperatures, vast distances, and widely dispersed patterns of settlement have made it impossible for bureaucracies based in far-off capitals to erect and maintain the kind of infrastructure and institutions that they have built elsewhere. As climate change transforms the polar regions, this book seeks to explore how the challenges of governance are developing and being met in Alaska, the Canadian Far North, and Greenland, while also drawing upon lessons from the region's past. Though the experience of each of these jurisdictions is unique, their place within democratic, federal systems and the prominence within each of them of issues relating to the rights of indigenous peoples situates them as part of an identifiably 'North American Arctic.' Today, as this volume shows, their institutions are evolving to address contemporary issues of security, environmental protection, indigenous rights, and economic development.

Author : Thad W. Allen,Christine Todd Whitman,Esther Brimmer,Anya Schmemann
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780876097083

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Arctic Imperatives by Thad W. Allen,Christine Todd Whitman,Esther Brimmer,Anya Schmemann Pdf

Author : Timothy J Demy
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682474853

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The U.S. Naval Institute on Arctic Naval Operations by Timothy J Demy Pdf

The U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the U.S. Naval Institute's vast archives, the series combines articles from the Institute's flagship publication Proceedings, selections from the oral history collection, and Naval Institute Press books to create unique guides on a wide array of fundamental professional subjects. This Wheel Book explores the Arctic--a region with new strategic significance--and includes the following articles: America's Arctic Imperative by Admiral Robert J. Papp, USCG (Ret.) Preparing for Arctic Naval Operations by Commander Mika Raunu, Finnish Navy, and Commander Rory Berke, USN Cold Horizons: Arctic Maritime Security Challenges by Commander John Patch, USN (Ret.) In the Dark and Out in the Cold by Lieutenant Commander Magda Hanna, USN Geopolitical Icebergs by Dr. David P. Auerswald And more...

Author : James Barnett,David Nicandri
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772030617

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Arctic Ambitions by James Barnett,David Nicandri Pdf

While dreams of a passage proved illusory, Captain James Cook's journey produced some of the finest charts, collections, and anthropological observations of his career. It also helped establish British relations with Russia and opened the door to the hugely influential maritime fur trade. This collection of essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars - including former Vancouver Maritime Museum executive director James P. Delgado and University of Alberta historian I.S. MacLaren - uses artifacts, charts, and records of the encounters between Native peoples and explorers to tell the story of this remarkable voyage.

Author : Ged Martin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459730298

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The John A. Macdonald Retrospective 2-Book Bundle by Ged Martin Pdf

This special 2-book bundle contains a number of perspectives on a man who was arguably Canada’s most famous political leader, a figure of legendary proportions in the history of Canada’s birth and development. Ged Martin’s biography tells Macdonald’s story. Shocked by Canada’s 1837 rebellions, Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his skills, and in 1867 he became the country’s first prime minister. He drove the Dominion’s westward expansion, rapidly incorporating the Prairies and British Columbia before a railway contract scandal unseated him in 1873. He conquered his drinking problem and rebuilt the Conservative Party to regain power in 1878. The centrepiece of his protectionist National Policy was the transcontinental railway, but a western uprising in 1885 was followed by the controversial execution of rebel leader Louis Riel. Although dominant nationally, this popular hero had many flaws. Macdonald at 200 presents fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada’s founding prime minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815. Crisply written by recognized scholars and specialists, the collection throws new light on Macdonald’s formative role in shaping government, promoting women’s rights, managing the nascent economy, supervising westward expansion, overseeing relations with Native peoples, and dealing with Fenian terrorism. A special section deals with how Macdonald has (or has not) been remembered by historians as well as the general public. The book concludes with an afterword by prominent Macdonald biographer Richard Gwyn. Macdonald emerges as a man of full dimensions — an historical figure that is surprisingly relevant to our own times. Includes John A. Macdonald Macdonald at 200

Author : Patrice Dutil,Roger Hall
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459724600

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Macdonald at 200 by Patrice Dutil,Roger Hall Pdf

A modern look at a classic leader. Macdonald at 200 presents fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada’s founding Prime Minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815. Well researched and crisply written by recognized scholars and specialists, the collection throws new light on Macdonald’s formative role in shaping government, promoting women’s rights, managing the nascent economy, supervising westward expansion, overseeing relations with Native peoples, and dealing with Fenian terrorism. A special section deals with how Macdonald has (or has not) been remembered by historians as well as the general public. The book concludes with an afterword by prominent Macdonald biographer Richard Gwyn. Macdonald emerges as a man of full dimensions — an historical figure that is surprisingly relevant to our own times.

Author : Dwayne Ryan Menezes,Heather N. Nicol
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787356627

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The North American Arctic by Dwayne Ryan Menezes,Heather N. Nicol Pdf

The North American Arctic addresses the emergence of a new security relationship within the North American North. It focuses on current and emerging security issues that confront the North American Arctic and that shape relationships between and with neighbouring states (Alaska in the US; Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada; Greenland and Russia). Identifying the degree to which ‘domain awareness’ has redefined the traditional military focus, while a new human rights discourse undercuts traditional ways of managing sovereignty and territory, the volume’s contributors question normative security arrangements. Although security itself is not an obsolete concept, our understanding of what constitutes real human-centred security has become outdated. The contributors argue that there are new regionally specific threats originating from a wide range of events and possibilities, and very different subjectivities that can be brought to understand the shape of Arctic security and security relationships in the twenty-first century.

Author : John English
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143190264

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Ice and Water by John English Pdf

As the Far North assumes an increasingly important role in international politics, so too does Canada’s role in its governance. In 1991, eight countries signed the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy: Canada, the United States, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland. This was the first step in the formation of the Arctic Council, which was formally established in 1996 to act as a high-level intergovernmental body to address social, political, and environmental issues in the Arctic. Indigenous peoples, who form a significant population in seven of the eight countries’ Arctic regions, are involved in the council as permanent participants if they represent a single indigenous people across borders. Acclaimed biographer John English explores the history and growing relevancy of the council as Canada becomes the chair of that body in 2013. English chronicles a remarkable shift in Canada’s stance. The Canadian embrace of co-operative multilateralism in the nineties and the jealous protection of sovereignty in 2010 reveal a difference in approach, interest, and values. Both approaches had antecedents in Canada’s past—there has been Liberal unilateralism and nationalist rhetoric too—but there are fundamental differences between Canadian policies in the 1990s and those adopted in the following decade. Ice and Water explores the origins, creation, and development of the Arctic Council as a means of understanding those differences.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 192670696X

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Who Owns the Arctic? by Michael Byers Pdf

Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean? Which territorial claims will prevail, and why — those of the United States, Russia, Canada, or the Nordic nations? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we protect the fragile Arctic environment while seizing the economic opportunities presented by the rapidly melting sea-ice? Michael Byers, a leading Arctic expert and international lawyer clearly and concisely explains the sometimes contradictory rules governing the division and protection of the Arctic and the disputes over the region that still need to be resolved. What emerges is a vision for the Arctic in which cooperation, not conflict, prevails and where the sovereignty of individual nations is exercised for the benefit of all. This insightful little book is an informed primer for today's most pressing territorial issue.

Author : Nina Wormbs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319916170

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Competing Arctic Futures by Nina Wormbs Pdf

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward. This book problematizes the dominant prediction that there will be increased shipping and resource extraction as the ice melts and shows how this seemingly inevitable future has consequences for the action that can be taken in the present. This collection looks to historical projections about the future of the Arctic, evaluating why some voices have been heard and championed, while others remain marginalised. It questions how these historical perspectives have shaped resource allocation and governance structures to understand the forces behind change in the Arctic region. Considering the history of individuals and institutions, their political and economic networks and their perceived power, the essays in this collection offer new perspectives on how the future of the Arctic has been produced and communicated.

Author : Corine Wood-Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351330671

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Performing Arctic Sovereignty by Corine Wood-Donnelly Pdf

The Arctic is 5.5 million square miles and has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years, yet it is still a frontier of development. But who owns the Arctic? This book charts the history of performances of sovereignty over the Arctic in the policy and visual representations of the US, Canada and Russia. Focusing on narratives of the effective occupation of territory found in postage stamps, it offers a novel analysis of Arctic sovereignty. Issues such as climate change, plastics pollution and resource development continue to impact the future of this space centred around the North Pole. Who is responsible for the region? This book examines how countries have absorbed Arctic territory into their national consciousness, examining the choice of, and use of, symbols and images in postage stamps. It looks at the story of how these countries have represented their Arctic frontiers and territorial peripheries. The book argues that the performance of policy in these regions has caused relative sovereignty to become a reality. It provides an intriguing account of how these countries have, in their distinctive ways, established, legitimised and reinforced their political authority in these regions. This book will appeal to Geographers and is recommended supplementary reading for students in political history and regional studies of the North.