Why the new Arctic ‘Cold War’ is a dangerous myth

ANALYSIS: Militaries do more than wage wars — and sensationalist warnings of a new Cold War in the Arctic do more to exacerbate tensions, not head them off.

By Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark December 19, 2018
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All too often the Arctic region is portrayed as an area on the cusp of military crisis. This is an easy narrative to sell; it harks back to the Cold War. Potent imagery persists of submarines trolling silently beneath the Arctic ice and nuclear ballistic missiles pointed across the North Pole.

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