Australia’s plans to build a 2.7 km airstrip and other infrastructure in the ice-free Vestfold Hills near its Davis Station in East Antarctica have be...View Details
Total 37 Episodes
Hosting scientific facilities representing 12 countries, the Ny-Ålesund Research Station in Svalbard is perhaps the most international location in the...View Details
Could the incident of the Ever Given running aground in the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade for six days, be a turning point that leads to an expa...View Details
Mar 1st, 2021
Interregnum No More: A Realist Perspective on the Geopolitics of the Arctic over the past 40 years
On this episode, Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe—an Arctic, Russia and Cold War expert at Loughborough University in England—analyses the emerging great p...View Details
Dr. Mike Sfraga, director of the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., joins the podcast to discuss the various ways he sees the Bi...View Details
Dec 23rd, 2020
Pandemic 2020 and the polar regions: The geopolitical year in review with Prof. Klaus Dodds
The rise of great power competition in the Arctic, the disruption of Antarctic governance due to COVID-19, and the impact of the coronavirus on vulner...View Details
Dec 21st, 2020
Beyond the Science Criterion: Reconsidering Antarctic governance in an era of climate change
Science is to a large extent the currency of governance and geopolitics in Antarctica, giving countries that conduct scientific research there a seat ...View Details
Oct 8th, 2020
China’s polar strategy at a crossroads: Pursue paradigms of the 19th century past, or envision a sustainable future
China’s increasingly ambitious polar activities have to date largely centered on exerting physical presence in the Arctic and Antarctic, according to ...View Details
