The Polar Pivot : Great Power Competition in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Ryan Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great powers.

Security, International--Polar regions.

Security, International.

Polar regions--Strategic aspects.

Polar regions.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

Once impassable and inhospitable, both the Arctic region and Antarctica are rapidly emerging as geopolitically strategic hot spots. As Ryan Burke writes in The Polar Pivot, the ice is melting and the tensions rising. In this new environment, what are the stakes? Why are Russia and China racing to increase their military capabilities and infrastructures in the polar regions? What is the United States doing to safeguard its interests and influence in response? Arguing that both poles are becoming contested military domains in an arena of great power competition, Burke tackles these questions and outlines the shift necessary in US defense policy to face a potentially looming crisis.

Contents:

On thin ice : the polar melting pot

Security, sovereignty, and influence in the polar regions

The four Cs : commons, claims, covenants, and cosmos

Polar peer powers : China and Russia

US polar policy and strategy

The polar trap : conditions for conflict

Toward a US grand strategy.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Burke, Ryan Patrick The Polar Pivot

ISBN:

9781955055161

OCLC:

1268122193