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Nov 13, 2024 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
Much of the world is now bracing for yet another period of uncertainty and potential chaos in the wake of the election victory of Donald Trump in the United States last week. The incoming president’s previous foreign policy platforms were based on widespread disengagement and at times isolationism, questioning American multilateralism, while habitually praising autocratic leaders and criticising USfriends and allies, while promising a more transactional approach to diplomacy.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
Although there remains much conventional wisdom which still considers the Arctic to be only loosely situated within international law, and potentially subject to an inevitable competition over influence and resources, like any other body of water the legal framework of the Arctic, (including the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea) or UNCLOS, is extensive and robust. That does not, however, grant these frameworks freedom from complete immunity to challenges or reinterpretation.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
The security situation in the Arctic has continued to evolve, due to both the continuing effects ofclimate change and the spillover of great power rivalries northwards. Finland has been a member of NATO for almost a year.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne |Mia Bennett |Levon Sevunts |Marc Montgomery
For the first time in over two decades, the Danish government is looking to renew its military’s focus on the
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Marc Lanteigne
With the Arctic finding itself under ever greater global scrutiny due to climate change, and opening up to increased economic activities, from shipping to mining to fishing, the question of whether great power competition is spilling over into the far north has assumed greater importance. One aspect of this attention has been the idea of a probable, and perhaps even inevitable, Arctic pact between China and Russia, one based on mutual northern interests and shared mistrust of the West.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
It was in 1954, after two years of test flights, when Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) successfully began a Copenhagen to Los Angeles route over the north polar region (with stops in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland and Winnipeg), using DC6 aircraft. These trips opened up the possibility of shorter transits between Europe and North America, making use of potential new ‘great circle’ flightpaths closer to the North Pole.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
Many aspects of Arctic politics which had remained predictable for years, or even decades, are now being called into question, not the least of which being the idea of the far north as greatly disconnected from geopolitical concerns elsewhere in the world, (commonly known as the ‘Arctic exceptionalism’ concept).
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May 23, 2023 | 
rcinet.ca | Marc Lanteigne
Although it has long been commonplace to refer to the Arctic as a single region, given similar geography, climate conditions, and oftentimes socio-economic challenges shared by far-northern regions, it is also not unusual to use the terms ‘European Arctic’, ‘North American Arctic’ and ‘Russian Arctic’, particularly in relation to politics and economics.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
allafrica.com | Velomahanina Tahinjanahary Razakamaharavo |Marc Lanteigne |Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo
Madagascar: Freddy - Madagascar's 8th Cyclone in 13 Months Compounds Climate CrisesanalysisBy Velomahanina Razakamaharavo, Lalatiana Rakotondranaivo & Marc LanteigneThough it escaped the worst impacts of Freddy, it hit as Madagascar was still rebuilding from a devastating cyclone in January and six in 2022. The death toll from Cyclone Freddy continues to rise, with reports of over 500 deaths in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar.
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Mar 13, 2023 | 
nordnorskdebatt.no | Marc Lanteigne
Kronikk Dette er en kronikk, skrevet av en ekstern bidragsyter. Kronikken gir uttrykk for skribentens holdninger. Siden Russlands overfallsangrep på Ukraina i februar i fjor, har Kina foregitt å være «nøytral» i konflikten. Kina har slik balansert forholdet til Russland med Bejing sin interessse i reengsjement med vesten på vei ut av isolasjonen under pandemien.
