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Why freezing the Arctic Council is bad news for global security

  • Written by Gabriella Gricius, Graduate Fellow with North American and Arctic Defense Security Network, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University
imageEight countries with territory in the Arctic make up the Arctic Council.Mike Swigunski/Unsplash, CC BY-ND

For the past quarter-century, the Arctic has been a unique zone of cooperation among the eight countries of the high north: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia and the United States. Even when relations between Moscow and...

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