Russia and Canada face the need to build a balanced and cautious policy about non-Arctic states
The Arctic is currently undergoing significant transformations that are the result of climate change and the global general political processes. One of the trends that ...
Policy brief #8/2016
The decline in global oil prices that began in the summer of 2014 carries with it a number of risks in assembling a whole range of major oil and gas projects, including shale gas extraction projects, deep-water offshore projects and projects in the Arctic shelf.
In these conditions, despite the ongoing surplus of global oil production in relation to consumption, the question nevertheless arises: how can we maintain current production levels in the medium and long-term and ensure...
... table discussion “Navigation in the Arctic: Promoting Cooperation and Addressing Challenges.” The event was attended by diplomats, representatives of government agencies, expert community and academic circles of Russia, the United States and Canada.
The discussion was opened by RIAC President Igor Ivanov. Welcoming remarks were delivered by Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Nazarov, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large and Russia’s Senior Delegate ...
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air facility
The second group includes the United States’
main allies in the world
: Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, Denmark, France and the Netherlands (with a bit of a stretch, we can also include Morocco in that group). These countries ... ... action
on February 25. Other countries that contributed strong contingents are Great Britain and Australia.
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US Navy B-1B "Lancer" Bomber Aircraft
on a combat flight
The countries that make up this group only deliver ...
... avenues for cooperation that still contains a tangible constructiveness and willingness for cooperation among the member countries.
Also of great importance is the fact that the United States, which will to take up the Arctic Council presidency from Canada this year, appears eager to isolate its function from international turbulence for the sake of closer cooperation.
I believe the next two years will be immensely significant in view of mutual socialization for the Arctic Council members, especially ...
... government that are made in the studies, carried out by scholars. And there is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that manages relations with related Arctic countries, it usually tries to avoid sharp statements in order not to provoke countries like the USA, Canada and Russia, that are involved in this issue as well.[11]
China has begun to claim a legitimate role in the Arctic as part of what is commonly being referred to as its ‘northern strategy’. In March 2010, a Rear Admiral Yin Zhuo of ...
... members that as in the case of Britain are not Arctic states. Experts of the Heritage Foundation (U.S.A.) presume that it may be Canada that in pursuing its national interests prevented any mention of the Arctic in NATO’s doctrinal documents – ... ... international conflict over oil and gas. The Cold Response of 2012 became the largest exercise in recent years, with 16.3 thousand servicemen from 15 countries taking part in it (10 thousand in 2006, 8.5 thousand in 2007, 7 thousand in 2009, and 8.5 thousand ...