Law and Governance

What Rights Cannot Hold: Sea Ice and the Exhaustion of Legal Imagination

Legal rights struggle to address the materiality of Arctic sea ice, prompting planetary solidarity as a new framework

A Map of the Arctic Ocean

A speculative map layering Arctic ice retreat, territorial claims, shipping, extraction, and wildlife migration to

The Teetering State of Norwegian-Russian Management Cooperation of Northeast Arctic Cod Stocks

As political pressure mounts, the future of Russia-Norway co-management of Northeast Arctic cod faces an uncertain

Legitimacy is an Arctic Security Asset: What Denmark’s Legally Fatherless Greenlanders Reveal about Trust, Sovereignty, and Security in the High North

Legitimacy as Arctic Security: What Greenland’s legally fatherless reveal about trust, sovereignty, and High North

Strong Because Weak: Strategic Dependency, Legal Constraints, and Greenland in Contemporary Arctic Geopolitics

Greenland turns strategic vulnerability into international influence, echoing the geopolitical indispensability it held

Inuit Sovereignty and the Future of the International Order

Inuit sovereignty is not for sale. As US pressure on Greenland grows, ICC leaders say sovereignty must be given by the

The Arctic Institute’s 2026 Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Series: A Conclusion

The 2026 Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Series recaps key findings and arguments, concluding with a broader

Research, Survey, Espionage: The Securitization of Marine Scientific Research in US Law?

A US bill could upend the Law of the Sea's consent regime by making consent depend on who conducts marine research, not

Sovereignty Below the Threshold: Why Arctic Security Demands a Nordic Economic Strategy

The US may provide NATO's ultimate security guarantee but the task of economic security in the Arctic is a European and