Latest Analysis
It’s Our Table: Indigenous People Shaping Arctic Policy
Jen Nelson, an indigenous woman from King Cove, Alaska, examines the importance of indigenous people leading discussion of Arctic policy.Read More >
The EU and its Arctic Spirit: Solving Arctic Climate Change from Home?
To find its true Arctic spirit, the European Union's path towards more Arctic involvement should essentially start closer to home, in EUrope.Read More >
The Nuances of Geopolitics in the Arctic
To better understand geopolitics in the Arctic, we need to separate between levels of security analysis and different interests of actors.Read More >
What Works for Wellbeing in Greenland?
This article discusses the ways in which pursuing Greenlandic independence might affect individual wellbeing.Read More >
Latest Reports
Russian Strategic Intentions in the Arctic
Pavel Devyatkin explores the Russian strategic intentions in Arctic shipping routes, energy extraction, and circumpolar governance.Read More >
An Arctic Council In Transition
How will cooperation between the United States and other Arctic States advance after the US hands over AC Chairmanship to Finland?Read More >
The European Parliament heading towards icy Arctic waters – again
A joint report by TAI and the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland on the EP’s Arctic resolution on an integrated EU policy for the Arctic.Read More >
The EU’s new Arctic Communication: not-so-integrated, not-so-disappointing?
A joint report by TAI and the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) on the EU's new Joint Communication on Arctic matters.Read More >
- March 26 @ 2:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Local knowledges, global processes: The Arctic’s epistemological tensions
- March 18 @ 11:30 am - March 19 @ 2:30 pm
High North Dialogue 2020
- December 3, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Expanding Role of Arctic Council Observer States: Implementing Japanese Arctic Policy in this New Context
Multimedia
Mapping Russia’s Arctic Hydrocarbon Development Scheme
By mapping Russia’s Arctic fossil fuel distribution networks, this article examines Russia’s Arctic hydrocarbon development within economic network theory.Read More >
TATW Map of the Months 2020
TATW has its very own Map of the Months. Rummage through the 2020 ones.Read More >
What’s not to Lichen? Infographic
Lichens are essential to Arctic tundra ecosystems, but their decline is problematic for caribou and the people who depend on them.Read More >
Rethinking Arctic Governance: Interview with Elana Wilson Rowe
Rethinking Arctic Governance is an interview with Elana Wilson Rowe on governance and power in cross-border cooperation in the Arctic.Read More >
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