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Introduction
This course examines how the characteristics of Great Power Competition inform a renewed framework for a U.S. security strategy in the Artic region. Building upon current U.S. security strategy, an updated Arctic Security Strategy accounts for legacy deficits in U.S. security frameworks, prioritizes Arctic security awareness, highlights operational considerations unique to the Arctic, and recommends establishing partnerships to aid the U.S. in transforming our nation’s security posture in the Arctic region.
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A renewed Arctic strategy acknowledges the GPC context and recasts the Arctic landscape not as a frozen tundra, but rather as an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) requiring both traditional and non-traditional approaches to Arctic security. In response to scholarly calls for greater emphasis on multi-domain considerations in U.S. security strategy, this self-study course posits that an updated approach in the Arctic sets a new standard for security by addressing shortfalls in land, sea, air, space, cyber, and information domains. Shifting to application, this course also demonstrates that to meet security goals in the Arctic, the U.S. must increase multi-domain awareness, operations, and partnerships throughout the Arctic and Alaska.
This self-study course will address how GPC is relevant in the Arctic, through a review of the Arctic security framework, Arctic resources, vulnerabilities, and threats while considering the evolving operational environment.
As depicted in Figure 1, Barbora Padrtova and Bertelsen point out that modern Arctic Security scholarship utilizes a framework that involves diplomacy, military, economics, society, and environment, which appears to be similar to the GPC framework in Figure 2.1
As scholars and historians alike demonstrate how Great Power Competition has been the norm in the Arctic for hundreds of years, from which the effects remain relevant in many ways today, these ideas and frameworks emerged while access to the Arctic was much more limited.2
Course Modules
Arctic Security Module 1: Diplomacy
Arctic Security Module 2: Military
Arctic Security Module 3: Border Security
Arctic Security Module 4: Economy
Arctic Security Module 5: Society
Arctic Security Module 6: Environment
About the Instructor
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References
- Padrtova, “Applying Conventional Theoretical Approaches to the Arctic,” 29; Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, “Arctic Security in International Security,” in Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, ed. Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Marc Lanteigne, and Horatio Sam-Aggrey (London: Routledge, 2020), 58. ↩︎
- Greaves, “When Great Power Fails,” 106–8; Bertelsen, “Arctic Security in International Security,” 58. ↩︎