Category: Arctic Theories

  • Visualizing Arctic policy actors

    Over a decade ago John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and author of multiple books on the intersection of numbers and narratives, published an intriguing article in the New York Times wherein he observed, “In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an…

  • Exploring Gaps in Arctic Governance: Identifying Potential Sources of Conflict and Mitigating Measures

    Exploring Gaps in Arctic Governance: Identifying Potential Sources of Conflict and Mitigating Measures is a 2021 RAND report by Benjamin Sacks et al. Together with an interactive map, Potential Drivers of Crises in the Arctic, it explores “six categories of potential conflict catalysts”: The authors identify “three key governance gaps in relation to these catalysts”: The report…