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The New Ice Age: The Arctic Battleground
The Spring 2015 issue, The New Ice Age: Arctic Battlegrounds, has hit shelves. Watch for the release of Arctic-related content online! … Not until 1908 or 1909 would humans even reach the North Pole, an accomplishment today usually credited to either...
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Iranian Queers and Laws: Fighting for Freedom of Expression
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president, once declared to the world: “in Iran, we don’t have homosexuals. In Iran we don’t have this phenomenon. I don’t know who has told you we have it.” At the time, Ahmadinejad’s remarks at Columbia University were met with...
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Can a Post-Crisis Country Survive in the Time of Ebola? Issues Arising with Liberia’s Post-war Recovery
Overview We suspect that the first case of the current outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) began with the illness of a two-year old child who died at the end of December 2013. This occurred in Guéckédou prefecture, Guinea, located...
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Beijing’s Ménluó Doctrine: If it was good for America, should it be good for China?
Beijing has an incremental foreign policy in the South China Sea, which appears to resonate with America’s Monroe Doctrine. When the increasingly assertive new nation declared that the Western Hemisphere was off limits to the great colonial powers of...
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Ebola: The Teaching and Learning Moment
Winston Churchill famously said, “never let a good crisis go to waste”. The Ebola crisis in West Africa is not a good crisis. It is a terrible catastrophe. Yet there is a lesson in Churchill’s words that must not...
By Barry Bloom
Current Feature: The Arctic Battleground
The Law of the Sea and the Arctic: An Interview with James Houck
A lot of your work deals with the UN Law of the Sea Convention, so let’s start by discussing what this agreement is, and how it...
Will Arctic Nations Let Russia Control Arctic Shipping? Should They?
In August, 1981, our Russian hosts built a campfire on a bluff overlooking the Lena River, near Yakutsk, a region most Americans only know...
The Arctic: Important for Norway, Important for the world
Traditionally, travel between Europe and the United States is described as moving “across the pond.” However, the shortest distance between our two continents is...
Getting Serious About the Arctic: US Interests in the North
In our fast paced world of sound bites, tweets, and captivating images, recent horrific acts such as those in Nigeria, Paris, and Pakistan shock...
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The Battle for Arctic Oil
There is a conception of the Arctic as a region solely based on the environment—in fact, there isn’t much else other than the environment....
Perspectives
The Dash for Gas How Iran’s Gas Supply Can Change the Course of Nuclear Negotiations
The end of the 19th century, Lord Curzon, then the British Viceroy of India, described Iran and its neighboring Arab countries as “pieces on a chessboard...
Interviews
World in Review
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New Wealth Seeks a “Home”: The Rise of the Hedge City
Vancouver is a city in flux. A stroll through one of its residential west-side...
Dissecting a Miracle: Pope Francis the Peacemaker
After more than five decades of hostility, embargo, and diplomatic frigidity, December 17, 2014...
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Putin a Stranglehold: The Changing Strategies of a Resurgent Russia
It has been a good year for Russian President Vladimir Putin. His country annexed...
Follow the Money: The Rise of Economics in Contemporary Geopolitics
When the Harvard International Review was founded, the world of finance was far from...