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  • Breaking the Ice

    From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic

    by Barry Zellen ...
    Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland. This work is based on field research conducted by the author during his nine-year residency in ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict

    Series series Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
    Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary society has impacted on indigenous institutions and structures for managing land and property. This book details some of the common problems ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • On Thin Ice

    The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty

    On Thin Ice explores the relationship between the Inuit and the modern state in the vast but lightly populated North American Arctic. It chronicles the aspiration of the Inuit to participate in the formation and implementation of diplomatic and national security policies across the Arctic region and to contribute to the reconceptualization of Arctic Security, including the redefinition of the core ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • State of Recovery

    The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11

    In the decade that followed 9/11, technologies and technology policies became central to homeland security. For example, the U.S. erected new border defenses with remote sensors and biometric scanners, and deployed new autonomous air warfare capabilities, such as the drone program. Looking at efforts to restore security after 9/11, the work examines issues such as the rise in technology spending, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • State of Doom

    Bernard Brodie, The Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World

    The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz. ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom

    The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic

    Series series Security and the Environment
    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 ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Art of War in an Asymmetric World

    Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era

    The work examines the rise of the movements against globalization, modernization, and Western dominance that followed the collapse of the bipolar world and the end of the Cold War and that culminated with today's global jihadist movements. It describes how the U.S. had to adapt to this new, asymmetrical world of conflict with its strategic, doctrinal and theoretical responses to the threats of ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency

    The authors of Culture, Conflict and Counterinsurgency contend that an enduring victory can still be achieved in Afghanistan. However, to secure it we must better understand the cultural foundations of the continuing conflicts that rage across Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, and shift our strategy from an attritional engagement to a smarter war plan that embraces these cultural dimensions ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Fast-Changing Arctic

    Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World

    Series Book 15 - Northern Lights
    In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading. Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic brings together ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Polar Imperative

    A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

    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 changesthe impact of resource exploitation on the indigenous peoplesthe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unfreezing the Arctic

    Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands

    by Andrew Stuhl ...
    This account of a region transformed—and threatened—offers "a timely historical reflection on the important social role of science and scientists."— Historical GeographyIn recent years, environmentalists have pointed urgently to the melting Arctic as a leading indicator of climate change. While climate change has unleashed profound transformations in the region, many commentators mislabel them as ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus