Will the Arctic Council begin addressing national security?

National security “sucks the air out of the room for everything else,” Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says

This year’s Arctic Council ministerial meeting showcased increasingly complicated issues in the region — from national security to climate change and more — and the subsequently complex discussions around them. In its aftermath, attendees and observers are debating where the organization will go from here, and whether its mandates — particularly the exclusion of national security issues — will change.