Arctic Watch

Facts About the Arctic

Analysis

Arctic Shipping: Exciting New Opportunities Ahead

The Arctic melting ice has unleashed a rush for resources, yet with limited regulation and corporate power playing a key role, the region faces growing geopolitical tension.

Arctic Strategy Thrilled by Japan’s Innovative Role

The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, about three times faster than the global average.

Arctic Truth: China’s Role Revisited and Clarified

China’s activities in the Arctic in recent years have been “highly exaggerated” due to “alarmist language in terms of scale, scope and risk,” according to research by Harvard University.

China and Russia challenge the Arctic order

But understanding how means looking beyond their partnership.

Arctic Youth Secure Exciting Policy Leadership Role

For a thriving Arctic, it’s vital to elevate young local experts into leadership and engage them in shaping the knowledge that guides regional policies.

Facts About the Arctic in July 2025

At the beginning of July JAXA/ViSHOP Arctic sea ice extent is still “lowest for the date” in their record going back to 1979.

Arctic Lens: Revealing Hidden Global Patterns

Arctic collaboration as we know it traces back to Murmansk, 1987, where Mikhail Gorbachev’s pivotal speech sparked a new era of peaceful dialogue.

Arctic Capital and Indigenous Peoples: a Postcolonial Critique of an Ecologically Unequal Exchange

Dissertation is a case study on the effects of capital accumulation on the governance of land and natural resources by Arctic indigenous peoples of coastal Alaska and Greenland.

Russia’s Arctic Bet: Can Asia Deliver on NSR Ambitions?

Moscow sees China, India, and other Asian powers as critical for the future of the Northern Sea Route in Arctic, but their involvement remains limited.