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Up North: Confronting Arctic Insecurity December 06, 2024

Shifting Geopolitics in the North October 15, 2024

Earlier this month, the China Coast Guard claimed to have entered the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia. In mid-September, Russia and China launched “Ocean-24,” a large-scale naval and air exercise spanning the Pac...

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Without Navalny, Russia’s Opposition Is Tearing Itself Apart October 08, 2024

Since the death of Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony in February, Russia’s opposition movement has found itself in disarray. Instead of Navalny’s death uniting those exiled Kremlin critics campaigning for a democratic future for Russia, the pa...

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Russia and China’s Cooperation in the Arctic October 03, 2024

While Beijing and Moscow have been working to establish a strategic foothold in the region for more than a decade, Washington and Brussels are just now waking up to the danger. ...

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The Coming Battle Over the Arctic July 30, 2024

Since the end of the Cold War, the High North has been defined by the idea of “Arctic exceptionalism,” the common understanding that the region had unwritten rules, beliefs, and history that protected it from great-power rivalry. Under this shield, C...

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Russia’s Gateways into the Indo-Pacific July 26, 2024

In September 2022, after both the invasion of Ukraine and a military takeover in Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met with Russian President Vladimir Putin under the umbrella of the Eastern Economic Forum (an event held in Vladivostok) to expl...

Growing Arctic Cooperation Between China and Russia July 23, 2024

A Proxy War of Diminishing Geostrategic Returns July 11, 2024

As Western leaders gather in Washington, D.C. for the 75th anniversary of the NATO alliance on July 9-11, 2024, the pressures for deeper American involvement in Ukraine’s War against Russia have continued to build up. The Biden administration, which ...