D uring the Cold War, the Arctic was a centre of Soviet-American tensions due to nuclear missiles at the North Pole. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet…
A s part of our Talking Geopolitical Podcast Series, we have talked to Ms Marie-Anne Coninsx, the first EU Ambassador for the Arctic and a Member of the Board of Directors of the International…
O ver the past decades, the Arctic has been a region of peace, stability and cooperation - an area of “high north, low tension”. Cross-border cooperation on non-military issues takes place in numerous frameworks[1]…
W hile the Covid-19 pandemic overshadowed remarkable jubilees such as 75-years of the UN-Security Council in 2020, it comes as no surprise to assess Covid-19’s domination over the political sphere to continue at least…
[dropcap size=small]A padlock stuck on a railroad switch was enough to block Murmansk’s oil terminal for about seven hours, one of the latest episodes of a bizarre corporate conflict in one of the world’s…