Greenland, Arctic Shipping Routes and the Law of Sovereignty: Strategic Implications for the 21st Century

 

Sovereignty, Emerging Shipping Routes, and Great Power Signaling in a Rapidly Transforming Polar Region

The Arctic Awakening: When Ice Retreats, Strategy Advances

For centuries, the Arctic was perceived as a frozen periphery — a vast, inaccessible expanse whose strategic relevance was limited to exploration, scientific research, and limited military observation during the Cold War. Harsh climatic conditions, permanent ice cover, and extreme logistical constraints rendered the region economically marginal and geopolitically quiet.

That assumption no longer holds.

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