October 8, 2007
Suggestions for initial research: What are (or ought to be) the issues? Who, then, are the most plausible Parties? At what level should these Parties be represented?
I found a good article on Arctic sovereignty --it sums up the entire issue well,
in Time magazine. It is the Oct. 1, 2007 issue. Pages 28-36
. I also found a Canadian Arctic Sovereignty Parliamentary Report from Jan 26,
2006.
Also in the Canadian Military Journal, 2006, By LCG Killaby, the article: “Great
Game in a Cold Climate”: Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty In Question.”
Marcie Hawranik
The Artic Council:
http://www.arctic-council.org/index.html
Programme for the Norwegian chairmanship of the Arctic Council 2006-2008: http://arctic-council.org/filearchive/AC_Programme_2006-2008.pdf
The Economist: Gold Rush Under the Ice:
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9607005
Money
Weekly: Who Will Profit from Arctic Resources:
http://www.moneyweek.com/file/17923/who-will-profit-from-arctic-resources.html
Times
Online: Arctic Military Bases Signal New Cold War:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2238243.ece
Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge:
http://www.anwr.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Kerry Hyre
One decent source is Russia Today - an English-language
news channel based out of Moscow. This particular article describes how
the Russian gas company has started production of a new gas field in the Kara
Sea, which will supply the pipeline to Northern Europe. Since Russia is
Europe's top energy supplier, the interests of the two powers will be closely
intertwined at the negotiation table.
http://russiatoday.ru/business/news/18650
These two article describe a new Canadian radar satellite, which was carried
into orbit by a Russian rocket. The satellite will pass over the Canadian Arctic
three times a day to keep watch over it. This may offer another interesting
aspect of the story - monitoring Arctic territories from space.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/13/tech-radarsat-launch.html
AND
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/14/tech-radarsat-liftoff.html?ref=rss
Articles from Times Online (British paper) about Royal Dutch Shell and Gazprom's
plans to develop gas fields in the Arctic.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2827357.ece
AND
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2917609.ece
This is the site for the International Conference for Oil and Gas Resources
Development of the Russian Arctic. This year will be the 9th annual
conference.
http://www.rao-offshore.ru/index.en.html Interesting. Here is
the press release from Gazprom's website about last year's conference.
http://www.gazprom.ru/eng/news/2007/09/25289.shtml
Katherine Avgerinos
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee:
http://www.carc.org/index.php
Canada's Arctic Sovereignty � Denmark's Claims in the Arctic � March
2005
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/id-arcticviking1.htm
Russia's Arctic Resource Race
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/russia
Arctic Development � Russian Claims - Strategic Resources � December
2007
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/id-arctic-spring-2.htm
Arctic: Russian claim of territorial rights - full text
http://www.keesings.com/breaking_history/international/arctic_russian_claim_of_territorial_rights_pub._oct._30,_2007/arctic_russian_claim_of_territorial_rights_-_full_text
WWF: http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/arctic/index.cfm
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Maps & Graphics for Arctic
http://maps.grida.no/region/geoarctic
Pravda's English Page
http://english.pravda.ru/
Novayagazeta in English
http://en.novayagazeta.ru/
Johnson's Russia List
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/default.cfm
Jeremy Busch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article721377.ece
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-03-24-arcticbonanza_N.htm
http://www.academicinfo.net/polararctic.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,409001,00.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0731/p01s01-woeu.html
Eric Oddo
Title:Dominance in the Arctic
Description: Very basic snapshot
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/arctic/
Title: Japan Cut's Waling Rights for Native People of Arctic
The New York Times
May 25, 2002
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1DF143BF936A15756C0A9649C8B63
Title: Arctic Circle
Web Site
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
Title: Wilderness: A Western Concept Alien to Arctic Cultures
http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/wilderness.html
Title: SELECTED THESES ON THE CIRCUMPOLAR ARCTIC.
Description: Interesting bibliography.
http://www.nunanet.com/~jhicks/arctictheses.html
Title: ARCTIC REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ TERRITORIES, LANDS ...
Description: 2007 Workshop Summary
http://www.galdu.org/govat/doc/arctic_workshop_report.pdf
IWGIA: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Description: Web Site
http://www.iwgia.org/sw231.asp
_______________________________ Teara Joy Collins
Maps/Technical
Resources
Arctic Undiscovered Petroleum Assessment
http://energy.usgs.gov/arctic/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3096/pdf/FS07-3096_508.pdf
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3077/pdf/FS07-3077_508.pdf
http://mondediplo.com/2007/09/IMG/pdf/arctic.pdf
Norway and Germany in Arctic energy deal
The Daily Telegraph, Aug 31, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/31/eaarctic131.xml
Washington Post, Mar 17, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40670-2005Mar16.html
Reuters, Jan 21, 2008
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL2131253920080121
The Arctic Energy Agenda
http://www.eu-norway.org/news/newsarchives/arcitc+energy+agenda.htm
A link to lots of stuff, some downloaded articles, some links. (I was able to read all the links while at the U. Auckland, so I presume you can here, too ;) You might look at the 1981 article in Foreign Affairs by Linc Bloomfield (one of my profs at MIT!). {So far I have been unable to learn how to list a directory, so here's the messy contents. Note that several items were accessed from U. Auckland: for these you need to go to the SU library e-journals.
Paste this addresss into your browser: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/jbennett/760s08/arctic/
Also, a report opposed by the US: Arctic Council
Russian border zone: access to it.
Greenland opens.
Weir, Gary E. (2005) 'Virtual War in the Ice Jungle: 'We don't know how to do this'', Journal of Strategic Studies, 28:2, 411 - 427
Pedersen, Torbjørn (2006) 'The Svalbard Continental Shelf Controversy: Legal Disputes and Political Rivalries', Ocean Development & International Law, 37:3, 339 - 358
Olav Schram Stokke, A legal regime for the Arctic?
Interplay with the Law of the Sea Convention
Marine Policy
Volume 31, Issue 4, July 2007, Pages 402-408
| Peter H. Sand,
‘Green’ Enclosure of Ocean Space – Déjà Vu?
Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2007, Pages 374-376 |
http://www.energypublisher.com/ Search for article "The battle for the next energy frontier" by Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff and Timothy Fenton Krysiek
Brubaker, R. Douglas (1999) 'The Legal Status of the Russian Baselines in the Arctic', Ocean Development & International Law, 30:3, 191 - 233
Geir Hønneland, Nuclear safety discourse in the European Arctic, Polar Record 40 (212): 39–49 (2004).
BarentsObserver.com, Northern countries met to discuss Arctic 2007-10-23 ("Representatives of Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America on 15 and 16 October 2007 met in Oslo for informal discussions")
A.D. Martin, C.K. Mayers and C.M. France, The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive: Problems arising from Implementation Differences between Member States and Proposed Solutions, RECIEL 16 (2) 2007. ISSN 0962 8797
Ron Macnab and Lindsay Parson, Continental Shelf Submissions: The Record to Date,
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARINE AND COASTAL LAW, Vol 21, No 3Guy Killaby
“GREAT GAME IN A COLD CLIMATE”: CANADA’S ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY IN QUESTION, Canadian Military Journal ● Winter 2005 – 2006A.D. Martin, C.K. Mayers and C.M. France,VE The EU Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive: Problems arising from Implementation Differences between Member States and Proposed Solutions,RECIEL 16 (2) 2007.
Jim Bennett