The Arctic and the Dilemma of Climate Change
The Arctic and the Dilemma of Climate Change

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this essay is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of the often neglected Arctic, which is a resource rich, strategically significant, area of the world, and is a source of many disagreements among its littoral states. On the other, the essay will argue that global warming – which it assumes is mainly caused by anthropogenic factors – will exacerbate these problems by providing new incentives for states to compete in the Arctic for territory and resources. While the mitigation of global warming is essential for avoiding global environmental disasters and for the reduction of conflict over territory and resources in the Arctic, global warming will be an incentive for some states to maintain the environmental status quo as climate change is profitable for them.

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