The CHanging ARctic GEopolitics Project (CH.AR.GE) expands the research and analysis of Barry Scott Zellen's Arctic Security Project from the post-Cold War security realignment to the present era of the polar thaw and its complex geostrategic consequences. The project started with a grant from the Canadian Institute of International Peace and Security (CIIPS) in 1991 and proudly continues to this day, over 25 years later!
Zellen’s first book from CH.AR.GE is Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic (Lexington Books 2008). Now in its second printing, BTI examines the political modernization of the Arctic as the region's indigenous people reclaimed much of their traditional sovereignty using contemporary constitutional, legal, and political processes, resulting in the emergence of a neotribal fusion of indigenous and modern political institutions, with overlapping governing structures transforming the relationship of tribe and state from inherent conflict to collaboration and functional integration.
In its sequel, On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books, November 2009), Zellen examines the ongoing challenges of asserting sovereignty in the Arctic region, as indigenous sub-state and modern state actors each seek to influence the evolution of diplomatic and strategic policies in the circumpolar region, and to determine Arctic security policies, resulting in the emergence of new concepts wedding indigenous, sub-state cultural values with "raison d'etat."
Zellen's third book produced as part of CH.AR.GE is Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger 2009), published in October 2009 as part of Praeger's Security and the Environment Series. Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom examines the geostrategic impacts of a polar thaw, and questions the politically-biased climate-change industry, and its overly pessimistic presumptions of climate doom, positing that a post-Arctic world could be a more united, properous and peaceful world. Published two months before the climate-gate scandal broke, Zellen's book offered a new, prescient, and non-partisan perspective on what he calls the "post-Arctic world."
The fourth book from CH.AR.GE, is The Fast Changing Arctic - Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (2013), an anthology edited by Zellen featuring the work of some of the world's leading Arctic security experts from the Alaska, Canada, the lower 48, Europe and Asia.
CH.AR.GE 2.0
The next phase of the project, dubbed CH.AR.GE 2.0, has two parts; the first will look beyond the Arctic basin to the other side of the treeline where there has been a great deal of activity on the land claims and self-government front across the entire Dene/Athabaskan homeland, from Alaska all the way to the U.S. southwest. The second part of CH.AR.GE 2.0 will look even further beyond the Arctic to the other side of the planet, to the southern continent, Antarctica, where the consequences of a planetary thaw promise to be profound.
The Other Side of the Treeline:
My earlier comparative work on Arctic governance and the post-land claims environment of the North American Arctic focused largely on the land claims north of the treeline with the exception of the Gwich’in land claim in the Western Arctic region just south of the treeline (with some overlap claims to the north). But the next phase of the project will look to the south of the treeline at the comparative land claims experience across the vast Dene/Athabaskan stretching from Alaska through the Yukon and southwestern NWT on down into the western provinces and states – a diverse spectrum of jurisdictions with different constitutional structures and third party interests resulting in a fascinating and complex range of agreements and solutions for greater Aboriginal self-governance ranging from the Navajo Nation complete with an independent justice system and tribal police force in the south all the way up to Alaska with its mix of Alaska Native Corporations at the regional and village level.
The Other Side of the Planet:
Next planned is a volume comparing the treaty structures of Antarctica with those of Alaska and the Canadian North, considering if the Northern model for economic modernization and resource development described by Wally Hickel as the “Alaska Solution” might better serve humanity in a warmer world than the complex diplomatic structure negotiated for Cold War-era Antarctica which aimed primarily to prevent the southern continent’s militarization, and to limit human activity to scientific research, and the prevention the exploration and development of its potentially massive natural resource base. Having developed a robust set of treaties and legislation that fosters the co-management of northern resources, the development of rural and indigenous economies, the training and education of young northerners to better compete in the globalized world, and the devolution of governmental power to the regional and local levels, northern treaties are inherently democratic, distinctly multicultural, and present the world with a unique decision-making and conflict resolution model that recognizes the constitutional supremacy of the sovereign state but protects the rights of indigenous minorities within the state while committing to the preservation of natural ecosystems and the environment – in short, balancing the interests of diverse stakeholders, from the northern trapper all the way to the multinational energy or mining company, and developing local and regional economies while protecting traditional subsistence, and the ecological health and diversity required for a subsistence economy to survive. It is this commitment to balance, and to creating wealth for the benefit of humanity, that suggests to us that the northern model, the “Alaska Solution,” may well better serve Antarctica than its current treaty structure as devised by diplomats with little interest in subsistence hunters, trappers and fishermen and even less in minerals and energy development.
In addition to the evolving treaty structure in Antarctica and lessons that can be applied from the other side of the planet, we are also commencing some preliminary comparative research from the other "top of the world" - the Himalaya (and the hill tribe country on its flanks), where other models of development and tribal modernization have been developed and from which much can be learned.
Published Books:
Authored Monographs:
Edited Volumes:
Articles & Chapters: Arctic and Tribal Issues:
Articles and Chapters on War, Strategy and Security:
Invited Panels, Presentations and Boards
Reviews of Published Books:
Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic (Lexington Books, 2008)
• Professor Barry M. Gough, Wilfrid Laurier University, Choice Reviews Online, February 2009. Recommended: Graduate students, faculty, professionals. “This history of the Alaskan and Canadian arctic breaks new ground with its contemporary narration and analysis of the past three decades of political developments and with its rich findings based on documentary and Web research. Not a work in comparative history, this is more of a parallel treatment of government actions in regard to the norths of the two countries and the responses of the indigenous peoples ... to develop Native self-sufficiency and to solve the persistent problems of land claims by various First Nations, including Inuit, Inuvialuit, and Gwich'in. This large account will guide future researchers and government agents.”
• Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010): "A detailed narrative of Inuit and northern Amerindians' struggle for control over their traditional lands and rights to self-government in Alaska and northern Canada."
• Mary Guss, University of Arizona (UA) NativeNet, "The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Bibliography."
On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2009)
• Matt Wiseman, "MattWiseman.ca," Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 31, 2013: "In arguing that history has not served the interests of Arctic peoples especially well, Barry Zellen’s On Thin Ice (2009) addresses contemporary Indigenous relations with academic integrity. Zellen’s examination focuses on Inuit peoples throughout the Arctic, and although it is not restricted to the Canadian North, it addresses issues of land claims and self-government specifically related to Canada’s past. ... On Thin Ice is a thorough examination of current issues facing both Canada’s federal government and the regions Indigenous populations. On Thin Ice is a broad synthesis that examines the current historiography of Indigenous relations in the Arctic."
• Ted L. McDorman, “From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief,” Ocean Development & International Law 42, No. 3 (August 2011), 280-287: "This is a book about the politics, both domestic and regional, of the awakening of global interest in the Arctic ... a useful book for context."
• Martin Edwin Andersen, "A Must Read from the Troubador of the Land of the Midnight Sun," Amazon Reader Review, February 24, 2010: "5 Stars Out of 5. In On Thin Ice, Barry Scott Zellen poses tough questions about Canada's claims to a vast swathe of the soon-to-be hotly contested resource-rich Arctic. Zellen not only shows how much these depend on whether a collaborative and interdependent relationship can be successfully forged with Native peoples struggling to preserve fragile ecosystems and their own ethnic identity, but how conceptions of human security, tribal security and national security are inexorably tied together. Zellen's keen insight and painstaking research suggests that truths from the land of the midnight sun might help to illuminate and guide the struggles of indigenous peoples around the globe. On Thin Ice is a "must read" for the 21st century."
Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger, 2009)
• Selected for "Special Focus: Good Winter Reads," Seniors Connect, Cleveland Public Library, 2012.
• Svein Vigeland Rottem, “Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic,” Polar Record (December 2010): “Timely and intriguing. ... Zellen aims high and touches upon a wide range of highly interesting approaches on how to grasp and analyse the challenges and opportunities in the region. One could argue that this leads to a lack of analytical depth, but at the same time this wide scope offers its audience easy access, insight and plenty of food for thought into a wide range of pressing topics within the area of post cold war international relations. The book is a central contribution to the debate on the future of the Arctic.”
• Ken Atkinson, “Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic,” British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23, Number 2 (November 2010), 324: “The strength of the book lies in its treatment of the surge of activities by the circumpolar states in the 2000s in response to the predicted decline in sea-ice coverage. For example, the need for information on the position of the continental shelf has resulted in the present race by states to map the Arctic oceanbed, in a search for evidence to put before the International Seabed Authority (ISA) under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This explains the recently updated Arctic policies of Canada and the US, and Russia’s dramatic flag-planting escapades at the North Pole in 2007. On these issues the book is commendably up-todate, and we are provided with over 50 pages of endnotes and bibliography (including many websites) for further reference.”
• Justin Klugh, “Book Review Wednesday: Books for the Cold at Heart,” The Green Life (Sierra Club), September 22, 2010: “The authors challenge some specific perspectives; most notably, yours. Should you be one of the many who don't live in Alaska, the frozen north is just that, and not much else. But for those who reside there, it's their neighborhood, their livelihood, and their home. A scientific look at just where global warming is going to leave us adds a foreboding sense of introspection for more than just those standing on the doorstep of climate change.”
• Kelley Crawford, Security and Defense Studies Review, Spring-Summer 2010: “Zellen deserves credit for providing another perspective on the Arctic’s situation where most of the literature is only concerned with the negative impacts of climate change.”
• Professor Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, University of Toronto, Journal of the ARCTIC, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2010: “Zellen has written a book that will make us think, and for that, his contribution should be lauded and welcomed as a source of important discussion among students and scholars of northern studies and northern policy makers alike.”
• Roger G. Barry, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, February 2010: “a timely and topical book… useful to residents of the north and scientists who work there, policy makers, and businesses with Arctic activities.”
• SciTech Book News (December 2009)
• Foreign Policy Association Editor's Pick (October 2009)
• Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), Virtual Research Repository, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues, Ecology: Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (B.S. Zellen).
The Realist Tradition in International Relations: Foundations of Western Order, 4 Volumes (Praeger, 2011)
• SciTech Book News (December 2011): “Zellen (Naval Postgraduate School) has had an energetic passion for international relations theory for several decades, with a focus on Arctic security and circumpolar politics. Ambassador David T. Killion (US Ambassador to UNESCO) provides an introduction to this four-volume work, beginning with a reminiscence of his first course with Zellen at Wesleyan University in 1986, which included 'a veritable who's who of realism from the classical era up to the 20th century....' The foreword by Joel M. Ostrow (political science, Benedictine U.) points out that this treatise, for many, is long awaited. Ostrow explains that Zellen '...offers unique insights into the entire concept of the nation-state.' He continues, advising that reading this work '...is a massive journey...not for the faint of heart' and suggesting that students of international relations theory will be most interested in Zellen's development of constructive realism theory historically, philosophically, and politically. Zellen discusses the rise of the modern nation-state, explores (Ostrow's words) the 'application and misapplication of the ideas [of constructive realism],' and 'chronicles strategic thought during the age of total war' and reactions against the nation-state (as evidenced by the attacks of 9/11). The four volumes each have a focus and are titled as follows: v.1: State of Hope, v.2: State of Fear,, v.3: State of Awe, and v.4: State of Siege. Each volume is separately indexed.”
• Goodreads (December 2012): "Rated: 4 of 5 stars. Heavy reading. Zellen has a writing style that strikes a balance between scholar and poet as he traces Realism from Thucydides to Hitler. This first book in his four volume series is extremely informative, but excessively, unnecessarily wordy. It is also highly repetitive ..."
State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum Books, 2011)
• "Brodie and War" by Dr. B.A. Clayton, Amazon UK, May 29, 2012: "An excellent account of Bernard Brodie's writings and thinking. Brodie was an eminent expert on military and political strategy. He was one of the first to interpret the significance of nuclear weapons, and later to formulate the theory of limited nuclear war. His writings on Clausewitz are very useful for the student. Like the Prussian he emphasized the need for war to have a reasonable objective. For Brodie the question that Marshal Foch used to ask: 'De quoi s'agit-il' is crucial. It is a great pity that our politicians did not consider it before entering on the fiascoes in Iraq and Afghanistan. I met Bernard Brodie several times at IISS Conferences. He was a very humane and charming man." 5.0 out of 5 stars.
• Strategy & Defence Planning: Meeting the challenge of uncertainty, by Colin S. Gray (Oxford University Press 2014), p104, n25: 'This professional challenge was well flagged and discussed in Bernard Brodie, War and Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1973), ch. 10. Three first-rate studies help explain Brodie’s professional position, located as he was between and among history, social science, and physical science. See Ken Booth, ‘Bernard Brodie’, in John Baylis and John Garnett, eds., Makers of Nuclear Strategy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), 19–54; Barry H. Steiner, Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1991); and Barry Scott Zellen, State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (New York: Continuum, 2012).' Also cited on p105, n33, and p190, n33: 'Notwithstanding its title and argument in praise of economics as a science, there is little in Bernard Brodie’s brilliant 1949 argument in ‘Strategy as a science’ ... with which I disagree. Brodie’s argument, as it were from the ‘Stone Age’ of defence analysis in the late 1940s, needs to be read in the light of the argument in his last major work, War and Politics, esp. ch. 10. Barry Scott Zellen, State of Doom: Beyond Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (New York: Continuum, 2012), is essential.'
• The Clausewitz Home Page, Clausewitz Bookstore: New Releases on Clausewitz.
The Art of War in an Asymmetric World: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era (Continuum Books, 2012):
• The LSE School of Economics and Political Science Blog, August 18, 2013: "Barry Scott Zellen explores how the U.S. has had to adapt to the new asymmetrical world of conflict that followed the end of the Cold War and that culminates with today’s global jihadist movements. Featuring the works of key theorists such as John Arquilla, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Arthur K. Cebrowski, and David Ronfeldt, this book is to be recommended to students of strategic studies willing to bear with this dense study from beginning to end, writes Andrew McCracken: 'The Art of War in an Asymmetric World – or AWAW, to use the sort of acronym so beloved of the armed forces – is both a history of military planning in the US over the past few decades and a prescription aimed at what the author considers to be its flaws. Barry Scott Zellen writes: “indigenous tribes and the most modern of states are waging a new and very asymmetric kind of conflict, one that is redefining the very building blocks of world order.” In AWAW, Zellen synthesises the academic discourse surrounding America’s military strategy over the past few decades. Inevitably for such a study, the war on terror looms large throughout; subject of the book’s central chapter, the conflict also informs the entirety of AWAW. ... The work itself is an esoteric tome unlikely to appeal to readers unfamiliar with the field. Typically for strategic studies, familiarity with the works of Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and lesser theorists, in addition to a grounding in how the war on terror has unfolded, is taken as a given. Indubitably, this is not Contemporary Warfare for Dummies.'"
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State of Recovery: The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11 (Bloomsbury 2013):
• Book Review of State of Recovery in Journal of Terrorism Research (JTR), Volume 5, Issue 2 (May 2014), p59-61. Reviewed by Richard English, Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), at the University of St Andrews:
"‘Technology to the Rescue.’ Barry Scott Zellen’s intriguing and impressive new book examines the deployment of technological innovation by the United States, as it has attempted to ensure its security from threat after the atrocity of 9/11. In the words of Zellen’s own manifesto here: ‘State of Recovery examines the numerous efforts by technologists and homeland security policy makers dedicated to restoring security and ameliorating the insecurity felt after the attacks more than a decade ago.’ It is a fascinating account. The author considers the dramatic US rise in technology spending, both public and private, since 2001; he assesses the remarkable innovation evident in recent years in biometrics, in information security, and in protection regarding aviation, underground travel, sporting events, food, and the mail system, as well as the reorganization (with the Department of Homeland Security and so forth) of US structures of prevention; he ranges widely over non-terrorist dangers, such as those posed by hostile states (North Korea, Iran), by illegal migration into America, and by increasing border violence. Zellen is an admirably prolific and highly intelligent scholar. Here, he recognizes that some measure of insecurity and threat will prove residual. And some very good points are made. One of the repeatedly important lessons which emerges from this thoughtful book is the constant need for ensuring intra- and inter-state coordination, cooperation, and partnerships (together with organizational streamlining). Regrettably, it is an insight more easily stated than it is adhered to in effective manner. No book is flawless. Zellen does not sustainedly explore the degree to which some of the USA’s main counter- terrorist efforts in recent years (especially in relation to Iraq) have actually generated more intense kinds of terrorist threat than had previously existed. Relatedly, he is better on the innovative technological brilliance involved in, for example, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles than he is in considering the possible blowback costs which the USA and its allies are likely to have to pay for drones’ lethal use. Here, as so often, there can be a seeming disjunction between the extraordinarily high levels of technical and technological sophistication shown by counter-terrorist states, and the sometimes crass naivety of states’ political and social approaches to the causation and likely dynamics of enduring conflict. Zellen has interviewed some fascinating people involved in the world which he delineates. At times, I felt that he might have interrogated their assumptions and claims rather more stringently than he does, in light of other–corroborating or sceptical–sources. So the chapter on nuclear terrorism might perhaps be justified in its somewhat anxious tone; but this would have seemed more persuasive to me had Zellen engaged with the less alarmist arguments of scholars such as Michael Levi (which he does not). One of the things that Zellen suggests is that ‘both the terrorists as well as those who fight them are finding that the internet has become a theatre of war unto itself ’. …"
Read the full review: here.
• Book Review of State of Recovery in British Association for American Studies' U.S. Studies Online Forum for New Writing.Reviewed by Dafydd Townley, September 2, 2015.
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 was a watershed moment in national security in the United States. ... The Bush Administration’s reaction was the formation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in January 2003 with a budget of $29.4 billion as part of a massive federal government reshuffle. This led to what Barry Scott Zellen describes as ‘an unprecedented surge in governmental investment in new technologies for homeland security.’(9) It is this government investment in the technology industry and the industry’s subsequent impact on the maintenance of national security that is the subject of Zellen’s publication. State of Recovery highlights in particular where government-led initiatives to secure the United States’ borders were influenced by corporate innovation through governmental funding and by developments within the consumer market since the Twin Towers attack. This is exemplified by the increase in efficiency and speed of development of consumer items such as mobile phones and tablets. As the war on terror became more technological, the military demand for greater technological advances became exponential, as did the funding. The increasing use of technology by both the US government and armed forces, and terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, leads Zellen to declare that ‘the internet has become a theatre of war unto itself.’(P24)
The book comprises of a number of essays written by Zellen which deal with the developments and innovation within information technology after the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. It addresses the issues faced by the US government after 9/11 to ensure the safety of the general public against terrorist attacks, and examines the attempts made by the US to make sure that any future hostilities occur as far away as possible from the US mainland. This is an impressive piece of scholarship by a recognised authority in his field. Zellen asserts that any successful national security program has to be as a result of successful partnerships, and it is a theory that is developed and supported by a wealth of information. The co-operation of government departments and technological corporations is illustrated throughout. The transformation of protection against online identity fraud is an example of this: already being developed by online security firms prior to 9/11, the necessity of restricting terrorist movement post 9/11 led to massive funding from the US government into the venture as part of the DHS’s Real ID Program. The program, part of the Real ID Act was an effort, says Zellen, to close the ‘revolving door to terror’. (33) It is Zellen’s examination of such juxtapositions that make this monograph such a unique and important contribution to the study of national security. ... State of Recovery is a remarkable piece of scholarship that fills a gap within the study of national security. It does not examine in detail the events or politics that led to the creation of the Bush Doctrine in the Post /11 era, rather it examines the role that information technology had in helping the Bush and Obama administrations realize their foreign policy, in particular its role in the Global War On Terror. It is an excellent supplement to more conventional national security studies, in particular highlighting the effect of the partnership between the federal government and technological corporations had on foreign policy, and the subsequent collateral effect on the consumer technological market.
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The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (University of Calgary Press, 2013):
• Betty Galbraith, Science Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, Washington State University in Northeastern Naturalist, Vol. 20, Issue 4, B10 (December 2013):
"Many have heard about the plight of the polar bear due to the shrinking of sea ice, but few have considered the other repercussions of global warming and the melting of sea ice in the Arctic. Luckily, circumpolar Arctic organizations, governments, and peoples have been considering this for many years. This book is a collection of essays on just these topics: sovereignty, strategic defense, national and environmental security, and global economics. Some of these essays consider the probable rush to grab territories, and to exploit new transportation routes and newly accessible natural resources. For example, a Russian flag was planted on the seabed of the North Pole in 2007. Corporations and countries are already positioning themselves to exploit oil and gas reserves currently under Arctic ice. This raises several questions: How can the Arctic nations peacefully manage these conflicting demands? What about the demands of non-Arctic nations that want a part of the spoils? Who will have the right to create and enforce environmental standards and rules? How will indigenous peoples fare? This is an excellent collection of essays from knowledgeable people. It is a must for anyone interested in geopolitics, international relations, and northern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."
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• Kristian Atand, of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, in The Journal of Polar Research (Vol 33, Feb 2014):
"How will the changes currently taking place in the Arctic affect the future nature of interstate relations in the region? To what extent, and how, will the decline in summer and winter sea ice in the Polar Basin lead to changes in the pattern of human activity in the Arctic? How do the Arctic states approach the region and each other, and to what extent are their Arctic strategies compatible? Will the Arctic become an arena of jurisdictional disputes and heightened military tension, or will it become a region of cooperation and prosperity? These are among the core questions addressed in The Fast-Changing Arctic: rethinking security for a warmer world, edited by Barry Scott Zellen. ... Zellen is a senior fellow at the Institute of the North, Alaska, where he directs the Fast-Changing Arctic project, which focuses on the geopolitical and other impacts of changes taking place in the circumpolar Arctic. Having worked on related issues since the end of the Cold War, as a journalist, editor and researcher, he has established himself as a prolific writer on Arctic and northern affairs. He is the author or editor of about 10 books and has several more on the way. ... The current book, which is a 400-page anthology featuring contributions by 20 authors, revisits many of the issues that were raised in Zellen’s monograph, Arctic doom, Arctic boom: the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic, published in 2009. At the same time, the current book widens the perspective and adds new dimensions to the analysis. Overall, it makes for an enjoyable read. The 16 chapters of this book are organized into three main parts, “Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities”, “cooperation and conflict: paths forward” and “regional perspectives”. The book also includes a brief foreword by Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor, Mead Treadwell, a concluding chapter by the editor (“Stability and security in a post-Arctic world: towards a convergence of indigenous, state, and global interests at the top of the world”) and an eight-page afterword by University of Alaska professor, Lawson Brigham. ... Zellen has done a great job in assembling the contributions and presenting them for a wider audience in the form of a highly accessible anthology. The book is well structured, most of the relevant topics and perspectives are represented, and all of the chapters add to our understanding of the increasingly complex dynamics at play in the northern part of the globe."
Read more: here.
• Mike Cowton, in the February 25, 2014 edition of Eco Travel Guide, online at: http://www.ecotravelguide.eu/fast-changing-arctic/
REVIEW: THE FAST-CHANGING ARCTIC: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, edited by Barry Scott Zellen(University of Calgary Press):
"Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, the Northwest Passage sea route traverses the Arctic Ocean, following the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. and connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. First navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906, up until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout much of the year. However, climate change has reduced the pack ice, with summer Arctic sea-ice coverage shrinking by over a third in the past three decades. This shrinkage has seen the waterways becoming more navigable. That said, contested sovereignty claims over the waters have complicated shipping through the region. In his foreword, ‘Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance’, Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska, writes that ‘for Arctic states across the globe, the accessible Arctic Ocean presents opportunities of a lifetime, with energy resources, minerals, tourism and shipping potential making this increasingly accessible region a classic emerging market’. The planting of a Russian flag on the Arctic sea-bed beneath the North Pole in August 2007 is symbolic of the high stakes involved as the Arctic opens up to oil and gas exploration, shipping, tourism and increased human habitation. Much has been written on the climatological and ecological stresses on the region, with little addressed on the military, defence, strategic and macro-economic opportunities associated with polar thaw. Here, international scholars and military professionals explore the strategic consequences of sea-ice decline. Timely reading indeed, on sovereignty and territorial disputes, oil and gas exploration, fishing, coastguard responsibilities and Arctic tourism."
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• Valur Ingimundarson, of the University of Iceland, "Geostrategic Visions for the Arctic," in the March 2014 edition of H-Net's (Humanities and Social Sciences Online's) H-Diplo, online at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40301
"... Edited by Barry Scott Zellen, who has written extensively on Arctic geopolitics, The Fast Changing Arctic contains contributions from established and junior scholars as well as military and coast guard professionals ... together, they deal with a wide array of Arctic topics, such as military and defense, governance and regional management, Arctic strategies, environmental politics, maritime and shipping developments, and sovereignty and legal concerns. ... Zellen analyzes the U.S. military regional commands in Arctic areas, that is, the Northern Command (NORTHCOM), Pacific Command (PACOM), and European Command (EUCOM) areas. He asserts that EUCOM should, in the future, be responsible for Arctic defense since the potential threat does not emanate from China, whose interests in the region are largely economic in nature, but from Russia. As he puts it: “Proximity to an awakening Russian bear, and experience in taming its more aggressive instincts, will be an important key to a secure and peaceful North” (p. 244). An important part of such Western regional defenses--he maintains--has historically been through close ties to Greenland and Iceland. ... In his treatment of future Arctic developments, Zellen conjures Cold War utopian and dystopian visions for the Arctic. He argues that an “Arctic Spring” has the potential to transform the Arctic Basin “much like the Prague Spring promised to open up and integrate Czechoslovakia with the West” (p. 343). The hope it expressed, he continues--while temporarily crushed in 1968--was realized with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. In addition, he stresses the empowerment of Arctic indigenous peoples and sees an independent Greenland as a real possibility. In fact, the editor--who is steeped in a realist tradition--is the only contributor prepared to project Manichean Cold War schemes onto the Arctic in his assessment of future strategic developments. Sometimes, he goes way too far in his analogies--the discourse on the “Arctic Spring” and the “Prague Spring” is a case in point. But he is also willing to contemplate other cooperative scenarios and transformative and empowering possibilities for the Arctic indigenous peoples. Thus, despite the hyperbolic language, the Arctic is, in the end, not seen as a geostrategic fixture, as was the case during the Cold War, but as a region open to different interpretations and outcomes, including emancipatory potentials."
Read the whole review here.
• Nikolas Sellheim, Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Review of The Fast-Changing Arctic in Polar Record, published on 13 March 2014 by Cambridge University Press:
"The warming trends in the Arctic have been widely documented and seem to have found rather unison acceptance among climate scientists. Secondary effects of this trend are reflected in the political developments in the region, albeit with differences in interpretation as to which path political developments will tread: conflict or cooperation? It is thus a matter of ‘security’ in the region which must be related to climate change. And this is what The Fast-changing Arctic – rethinking Arctic security for a warmer world tries to achieve. The book is subdivided into four sections, ‘Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities’, ‘Cooperation and conflict: paths forward’, ‘Regional perspectives’, and ‘Concluding observations’. ... there are several contributions in this volume which justify the ‘rethinking’-element of the book. ... It is thus to conclude that The Fast-changing Arctic provides many new perspectives on a traditional understanding of Arctic security with a dominant state-centred, North American focus."
Read the review here.
• John D. Jacobs, Honorary Research Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (May 2014):
"The Fast-Changing Arctic is more about the geopolitics of the Arctic than the rapidly evolving environmental changes taking place there. However, anyone who does research in the Arctic must be sensitive to the politics at some level and will be interested in policy matters that can be informed by science and ultimately will affect the future state of the Arctic environment. This book is a collection of 16 substantive chapters arranged under the headings Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities, Cooperation and conflict: paths forward, Regional perspectives, and Concluding remarks. The 17 authors encompass a range of relevant experience and expertise, and include academics, military and diplomatic professionals, and journalists. None appear to be from indigenous Arctic communities, although several of the chapters deal with emerging indigenous governance and power-sharing issues, particularly in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. There are extensive notes and references, numerous maps and other figures, a comprehensive index, and information about the contributing authors. Most of the chapters have appeared previously as articles in foreign policy and international law journals dating between 2009 and 2011, but they provide good background to things to come. Arctic warming and associated diminishing sea ice and other physical and ecological effects are sketched in several chapters, with reference to model projections for future change. That the decline in seasonal sea-ice extent has outpaced most model projections is noted and becomes a source of some urgency, as in Alun Anderson’s statement, “action to look after the Arctic must accelerate too.” ....The Fast-Changing Arctic is a comprehensive treatment of current Arctic policy issues by authors with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. While the book lacks some of the continuity of a focused work by a single author, the editor has succeeded in organizing the various contributions into a coherent whole. This book joins a growing literature on politics, resource development, and environmental issues in the Arctic, and should be of interest to anyone who has an interest in the future of the region."
Read the full review: here
• Miloš Barták, "Review of The fast-changing Arctic. Rethinking Arctic security for a warmer world, Barry Scott Zellen (ed.)," Czech Polar Reports: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4, No. 1 (2014), Masaryk University, Brno.
"A general feature of the book is that it brings a pragmatic view on the consequences of the global warming of the atmosphere, and the sea ice decline in the northern hemisphere in particular. In contrast to many books on the market that focus on recent climatological and environmental changes happening in the Arctic ocean, The fast-changing Arctic overviews the aspects of ongoing transformation of the Arctic with main emphasis given to tourism impact, increased availability of mineral sources, fishing industry, human habitation, economic, military, and defense consequences. Among the many topics presented in the book, the likely effects of increased shipping through the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route are brought into focus. The book is not a typical scientific study; it is rather a platform for several professionals and academicians who comment on history and possible future scenarios of environment, geopolitical and security issues in the Arctic. ... As regards security in the Arctic region, the majority of the co-authors stress the importance of dialogue and collaboration between countries involved in ship transportation in coastal Arctic seas that are expected to be more open in future. In one of the concluding chapters, L. W. Brigham concludes that "The Arctic will become a shipping superhighway," which again supports the idea of co-operation and a necessity for coordination of the exploitation of traffic routes in Arctic seas. The book can be recommended to professionals in the field of international relations, geodemography, strategic studies, and members of international organizations that have Arctic issues in their scope."
Read the full review: here
Culture, Conflict and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, 2014):
• Ohio State Professor Peter Mansoor's Review of Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency in the July 2014 edition of H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41583:
"Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency is a collaborative effort by ten scholars and military practitioners to explain the criticality of cultural knowledge and awareness in the messy small wars of the twenty-first century, in particular the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. The product of a two-year study sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California, this volume seeks to clarify the importance of cultural understanding to national security and foreign policy, the theory underpinning cultural analysis, practical difficulties involved in data collection and analysis, and how cultural issues have impacted recent military adventures in the Middle East and South Asia. Contributors include cultural and social anthropologists, historians, and military officers with both academic and field experience in anthropology and counterinsurgency warfare. The editors conclude that culture matters a great deal in conflict, and the United States and its allies can either make the effort to understand its impact on warfare or suffer the unhappy consequences of their ignorance. They optimistically conclude that Afghanistan can still turn out successful for the United States and its Afghan allies provided they undertake a “significant course change reflecting cultural nuances” (p. 3). Although this assessment may be overly optimistic given the impending departure of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan, this book is highly recommended for scholars, military practitioners, and government officials involved in studying or crafting policies concerning irregular warfare in the twenty-first century. The volume is divided into two general sections, the first focusing on theory and methodology and the second on practice in the context of the war in Afghanistan. The first section will appeal primarily to scholars, although Alexei Gavriel’s chapter on the creation and use of cultural and ethnographic intelligence by military forces will spark both interest among military intelligence professionals and no doubt a great deal of angst among sociologists and anthropologists. The discussion of culture and the war in Afghanistan in the second part of the book will be of more interest to the generally informed reader. ... The editors conclude, “In the history of recent counterinsurgency efforts, the impact of cultural understanding on military operations cannot be underestimated” (p. 252). Perhaps the impact cannot be underestimated, but it can be ignored. There are a number of military officers and self-appointed counterinsurgency pundits who are trying to do just that in their quest to return the focus of the U.S. military to fighting state-on-state wars. As U.S. forces withdraw from the conflicts spawned by the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, Americans and their military leaders seem united by a common desire to forgo any more of these messy, troop-intensive counterinsurgency conflicts. Unfortunately, in our haste to forget the history of the past decade-plus of warfare in the Middle East and South Asia, we may also jettison the very lessons—among them the importance of culture in determining the outcome of these conflicts—that may help future generations avoid the pitfalls that plagued too many U.S.-led military operations in the past. The editors and contributors to this volume make a convincing case that culture matters a great deal in the outcome of insurgencies and counterinsurgency warfare. Although this book has probably come too late to change the outcome of the conflict in Afghanistan, perhaps it is timely enough to educate the next generation of military leaders, who most certainly will see this type of war again."
Read the full review here. Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=41583.
In the Literature: Scholarly Citations:
2015
• Adam Stepien, Timo Koivurova, and Paula Kankaanpaa, The Changing Arctic and the European Union. Martinus Nijhoff, Nihoff Law Specials No. 89 (October 15, 2015).
• Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge, eds., Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series, Book 78 (Mcgill-Queens University Press, 2015).
• Patricia Owens, Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2016: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2015).
• Frank Sejersen, Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change: New Northern Horizons (The Earthscan Science in Society Series, 2015).
• Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt, Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North(I.B.Tauris, 2015).
• Justiina Dahl. "Assessments, models and international politics of the Arctic: why the “New North” narrative includes only bomber, polar bear, oil, and gas deposit models, and no original parts or an assembly manual." The Polar Journal 5, no. 1 (2015): 35-58.
• Marc James Leger. "From Climate Crisis to Climate Movement: A Conversation with Robert Van Waarden." Afterimage 42, no. 4 (2015): 4.
• Olle Sundström, "Review of Takashi Irimoto, The Ainu Bear Festival, Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press 2014." Journal of Northern Studies 9, no. 1 (2015): 133-136.
• Martin Björk, Geopolitisk dynamik: Ett teoriutvecklande anspråk (Geopolitical dynamics: A theoretical claim), Swedish National Defence College, Department of Security and Strategic Studies (ISS). (Swedish). Independent thesis, advanced level, http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:824042/FULLTEXT01.pdf (June 4, 2015)
• Ethem Ilbiz and Benjamin L. Curtis. "Trendsetters, Trend Followers, and Individual Players: Obtaining Global Counterterror Actor Types from Proscribed Terror Lists." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 38, no. 1 (2015): 39-61.
• Katarzyna Zysk and David Titley. "Signals, Noise, and Swans in Today's Arctic." SAIS Review of International Affairs 35, no. 1 (2015): 169-181.
• Jillian Terry, "Feminist Ethics and War: Conceptualising Care in Post-9/11 Counterinsurgency," Department of International Relations, London School of Economics. Paper presented at the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), University of Uppsala, Sweden (11-13 June, 2015) citing Johnson and Zellen, eds, Culture, Conflict and Counter-insurgency.
• Marlene Laruelle, Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North, Routledge, 2015.
• Andrew J. Goodpaster, "Brief Notices." Survival 57.2 (2015): e1-11.
2014
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2015: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2014).
• Calvince Omondi Barack, "The Terrorist Group’s Selection of Targets and Their Motivation: The case of Al Qaeda," Master's thesis, December 13, 2014.
• Colin S. Gray, Strategy & Defence Planning: Meeting the challenge of uncertainty, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Nordic Council of Ministers, Marine invasive species in the Arctic, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2014.
• Øyvind Østerud and Geir Hønneland, "Geopolitics and International Governance in the Arctic," Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Volume 5, No. 2 (2014), 156–176.
• Mia M. Bennett, "North by Northeast: toward an Asian-Arctic region," Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol 55, No. 1 (August 2014), 71-93.
• Emma Barry-Pheby, "Examining the Priorities of the Canadian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Current Obstacles in International Law, Policy, and Governance," Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review, 25 (Summer 2014): 259-419.
• Andrea Beck, "China’s strategy in the Arctic: a case of lawfare?" The Polar Journal 4.2 (2014): 306-318.
• Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, "The seven-decade quest to maximize Canada’s continental shelf," International Journal, July 18, 2014.
• Pauline Wakeham, "At the Intersection of Apology and Sovereignty: The Arctic Exile Monument Project," Cultural Critique, No. 87 (Spring 2014), 84-143.
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean" in Anderson, Jon & Peters, Kimberley, Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (Ashgate, 2014), 23-37.
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Maintaining Hegemony at a Distance: The U.S. Arctic Region Policy Presidential Directive of 2009" in Powell, Richard & Dodds, Klaus, Polar Geopolitics? Knowledge, Resources and Legal Regimes (Edward Elgar, 2014), 113-130.
• Waliul Hasanat, "Searching for Synergies in International Governance Systems Developed in the Circumpolar North,"McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Special Issue on Polar Law Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2014), 5-41.
• Hong, Nong. "Emerging interests of non-Arctic countries in the Arctic: a Chinese perspective." The Polar Journal 4.2 (2014): 271-286.
• Glenn Hastedt, Donna L. Lybecker, Vaughn P. Shannon, Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation, CQ Press (March 1, 2014)
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Steering Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea," Ocean Development & International Law, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2014 (January 2014), 84-106.
• Richard C. Powell and Klaus Dodds, eds., Polar Geopolitics? Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes (Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 2014).
• Nicol, Heather. "Nunavut, Sovereignty, and the Future for Arctic Peoples’ Involvement in Regional Self-Determination." Northern Review 37 (2014).
2013
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2014: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2013).
• Irina Zhilina, Security Outlook of the Arctic States and Perspectives on NATO’s Involvement, University of Akureyri, Master’s Programme in Polar Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Department of Law, University of Akureyri, September 2013.
• Hew Strachan, The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Arabinda Acharya, Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat. Routledge, 2013.
• Margrét Cela, "Iceland: A Small Arctic State Facing Big Arctic Changes," The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2013), 75–92.
• James Manicom, "Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation?,"Geopolitics, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2013.
• Kristian Åtland, "The Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic Ocean," Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security 2013, 205-216.
• Klaus Dodds, "The Ilulissat Declaration (2008): The Arctic States, 'Law of the Sea,' and Arctic Ocean," SAIS Review of International Affairs, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer-Fall 2013, 45-55.
• Heather R. Schimmelpfennig, "After the Disaster: Business Continuity," ANSI (publicaa.ansi.org), July 2013.
• Institute of the North, "New Book Released - The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World," July 12, 2013, http://www.institutenorth.org/news/entry/new-book-released.
• Sean A. Stein, "The Submarine -- The Key to Winning an Arctic Conflict," Research paper, Naval War College, May 15, 2013.
• Daniel W. Gray, "Changing Arctic: A Strategic Analysis of United States Arctic Policy and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," Master's thesis, National Defense University, May 2013.
• Tereza Horejsova and Cody Morris Paris. "Tourism and the challenge of Arctic governance." International Journal of Tourism Policy 5, no. 1 (May 2013): 113-127.
• Amy Lauren Lovecraft, "The human geography of Arctic sea ice: Introduction." Polar Geography 36, No. 1-2 (Apr 2013): 1-4.
• Frédéric Lasserre, Jérôme Le Roy, and Richard Garon. "Is there an arms race in the Arctic?" Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 14, no. 3 & 4 (March 2013).
• Lisa M. Hodgetts, "The rediscovery of HMS Investigator: Archaeology, sovereignty and the colonial legacy in Canada’s Arctic." Journal of Social Archaeology 13, no. 1 (February 2013): 80-100.
• James Manicom, "The domestic politics of disputed Arctic boundaries: the Canadian case." Polar Record (Feb 2013), 1-11.
• Olivia, Mancuso, "Arctic meltdown: A problematic property rights structure translates into poor resource management."Studies by Undergraduate Researchers at Guelph 6, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 5-13.
• Jakob Steiner, Hijacked Drones, The Tuqay: Essays from Beyond the Well-Protected Domains, January 28, 2013.
• Kristian Åtland, The Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic Ocean, Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean (Springer: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security), 2013, 205-216.
2012
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2013: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2012).
• Fiammetta Borgia and Paolo Vargiu, The Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic: Between the Right to Self-Determination and a New Concept of Sovereignty?, The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012, Volume 4, Issue 1, 189-204.
• Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hohler, Patrick Kupper, Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective. Berghahn Books 2012.
• Sao Noan Oo, The Shan’s fight for their Rights and Lost Homeland, Burma Digest / Shan Herald, Dec 24, 2012.
• Ana-Maria GHIMIȘ, The Arctic Region: From a frozen desert towards a hot geopolitical region, Center for European Policy Evaluation, December 10, 2012.
• Nadine C. Fabbi, "Inuit Political Engagement in the Arctic." Arctic Yearbook 2012 (November 2012): 161.
• Nikolai Vakhtin, "European University at St. Petersburg: New Program on Arctic/Siberian Studies." Sibirica 11, no. 3 (Winter 2012): 56-70.
• James Manicom, "Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation?"Geopolitics, Fall 2012.
• Jeppe Strandsbjerg, "Cartopolitics, Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Arctic." Geopolitics 17, no. 4 (October 2012): 818-842.
• Peter Johnston, "Arctic Energy Resources: Security and Environmental Implications." Journal of Strategic Security 5, no. 3 (September 2012): 5.
• Alain Faure, ed. "What holds the Arctic together?" L'Harmattan, September 2012.
• Andrew Chater, A New Tipping Point: The Government of Canada, Northern Residents and Climate Change, A Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Edmonton, Alberta, June 15, 2012,http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2012/Chater.pdf.
• Chiara Rogate and Marco Ferrara, "Climate Change and Power Shifts in the Arctic Region," Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs 15 (Spring 2012), Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University.
• Siri E. Linz, Procedural Implications of the March 2011 Solicitor's Memorandum: Repatriation in Alaska, Master's Thesis, University of Washington, Spring 2012.
• Daniel Pomerants, "The Beaufort Sea Maritime Boundary Dispute: High Stakes for Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Resource Extraction in a Changing Climate." PhD diss., York University, Spring 2012.
• Charles Officer and Jake Page. Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Anders Frandsen, "Arktis: Fredelig udvikling eller militær konflikt?" Copenhagen Business School, June 1, 2012.
• Steve Dobransky, "Military Security, Energy Resources, and the Emergence of the Northwest Passage: Canada’s Arctic Dilemma," American Diplomacy, June 2012, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2012/0106/ca/dobransky_arctic.html.
• Rob Huebert, Heather Exner-Pirot, Adam Lajeunesse, and Jay Gulledge, Climate Change & International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether, Arlington, VA: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), May 2012.
• Aleksei Fenenko, "Russia and the Competition for the Redivision of Polar Spaces," Russian Politics and Law 50, No. 2 (March-April 2012), 7-33.
• Gavin Kentch, "Comment: A Corporate Culture? The Environmental Justice Challenges of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act," Mississippi Law Journal 81 (March 2012), 813.
• Byron Ruby, "Conflict or Cooperation? Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change," Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 25, No. 1 (January 2012).
• Nong Hong, "The Energy Factor in the Arctic Dispute: A Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?" The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, January 2012.
• Personenlexikon Internationale Beziehungen Virtuell (PIBv), January 2012: "Bernard Brodie, Sekundärliteratur."
• Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen, New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
• Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hohler, Patrick Kupper, eds., Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective,
Volume 1 of Environment in History: International Perspectives, Berghahn Books, 2012.
2011
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2012: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2011).
• Irina Valko, "Cold Waters, Hot Stakes: Systemic Geostrategic Analysis of International Relations in the Arctic Transborder Region," Master's Thesis, Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, 2011.
• James Manicom, "Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic," International Studies Perspectives 12, No. 3 (August 2011), 327–340.
• Kristian Åtland, "Russia's Armed Forces and the Arctic: All Quiet on the Northern Front?" Contemporary Security Policy 32, No. 2 (August 2011), 267-285.
• Ted L. McDormana, "From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief," Ocean Development & International Law 42, No. 3 (August 2011), 280-287.
• Alexei Fenenko, "ROSSIIa I SOPERNIChESTVO ZA PEREDEL PRIPOLIaRNYKh PROSTRANSTV (РОССИЯ И СОПЕРНИЧЕСТВО ЗА ПЕРЕДЕЛ ПРИПОЛЯРНЫХ ПРОСТРАНСТВ)," Mirovaia e'konomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, No. 4 (April 2011), 16-29.
• "The Jomini of Non-Violence," Rethinking Security, February 22, 2011.
• "Sharp as a Modern Jomini," Small Wars Journal, February 17, 2011.
2010
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2011: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2010).
• Ross Coen, “If One Should Come Your Way, Shoot It Down”: The Alaska Territorial Guard and the Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack of World War II, Alaska History, Volume 25, No. 2, Fall 2010, 1-19.
• Conrad Schetter, "Ungoverned territories" – Eine konzeptuelle Innovation im "War on Terror," Geographica Helvetica Jg. 65 2010/Heft 3, 181-188.
• Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, Strategic Insights, Volume 9, No. 12 (December 2010), 26-52.
• Heather N. Nicol, Canadian Arctic Security and Climate Change: Where Does Traditional Security Fit? Arctic 2010: Conference International Sur L'Arctique, Enjeux et équations géopolitiques au 21ème siècle, Lyon, 22-23 November 2010,http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/53/76/45/HTML/index.html.
• Paul Arthur Berkman, Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean: Promoting Co-operation and Preventing Conflict, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Whitehall Paper, 30 September 2010, http://www.rusi.org/publications/whitehall/• Henrik Jørgensen, Babysteps-Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic, Center for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, September 2010.
• Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Climate Change, Independence and Microstate Security Policy: The Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, September 2010
• Stephen M. Sachs, "Upcoming Events," Indigenous Policy Journal, July 2010, http://02b7adb.netsolhost.com/ipjblog/post/Upcoming-Events.aspx.
• Kristian Åtland, Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic, The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) Report No 01097, 18 May 2010, http://rapporter.ffi.no/rapporter/2010/01097.pdf.
• Paul Cornish, Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, Chapter 12, in Robin Niblett, ed., America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership (Wiley-Blackwell, May 2010).
• Christian Webersik, Climate Change and Security: A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges (Praeger, May 2010).
• Daryl Robbin, Arctic Defense Concerns: The Need to Reorganize United States Defense Structure to Meet Threats in a Changing Arctic Region, Joint Military Operations Department, Naval War College, Report No. A771525, 3 May 2010
• Mira Burria, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, "Digital Technologies and Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Positive Look at a Difficult Relationship," International Journal of Cultural Property 17, No. 1 (April 2010): 33-63.
• Harry Borlase, "Consistencies and Inconsistencies in the National Strategies of the Arctic Littoral States," University of Akureyri, Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Master’s Program in Polar Law, March 2010.
• Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010).
• Valerie Alia, The New Media Nation: Indigenous peoples and global communication (Berghahn Books, 2010).
• Martin Edwin Andersen, Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy & the Indigenous Challenge in "Latin" America, Lexington Books, 2010.
• Mira Burri-Nenova, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, Digital Technologies and Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Positive Look at a Difficult Relationship, International Journal of Cultural Property 17, No. 1 (2010), 1-31. • Roger G. Barry, Distinguished Professor of Geography Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom. The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic, Journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 42, No. 1 (February 2010).
• Stig Nøra, "Kina vil ha sin del av Nordområdene: Kina blir stadig mer aktive i nordområdene. Raskere transportruter til europeiske og amerikanske markeder, store olje- og gass-ressurser og kunnskapsbehov om klima-endringene gjør Arktis attraktiv for en fremvoksende stormakt som Kina," Dagens Perspektic, January 10, 2010.
• Peter F. Johnson, Arctic Energy Resources and Global Energy Security, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No. 2 (2010).
2009
• Arabinda Acharya, Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes (Contemporary Terrorism Studies), Routledge, 2009.
• Amy Fletcher, A look back at 2009 releases, Juneau Empire, December 10, 2009.
• James Manicom, “Climate Change, Extended Continental Shelf Claims and Maritime Territorial Disputes in the High Arctic,” ISSS-ISAC Conference 2009, Insecurity and Durable Disorder: Challenges to the State in an Age of Anxiety, October 19, 2009.
• Melissa Bert, Captain, USCG, John Chaddic, FBI, and Brian D. Perry, Colonel, USA, The Arctic in Transition: A Call to Action, Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, October, 2009.
• J. S. Onésimo Sandoval and Gloria Ortiz, Toward a U.S. Analytic Latino Concept, Journal of Latino-Latin America Studies3, No. 3 (2009).
• John Donihee, Land Claim Agreements and the North to 2030, Session No. 3 Conference Pager, 2030 North National Planning Conference, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, June 1, 2009.
• Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty, Arctic Sovereignty and Governance, Winter 2008/2009, Canadian Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
2008
• Frank R. Spellman, Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security, Government Institutes, 2008, 40.
• Kevin Howe, Panel Looks at Ramifications of Arctic Meltdown, Monterey Herald, December 10, 2008.
• L. Anne Enke, Accusations of Obama 'Climate Shame' & 'New Holocaust' End, Anne of Carversville, December 18, 2009
John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher, Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives, Texas Tech University, December 2008.
• Mira Burri-nenova and Christoph Beat Graber, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
• Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri-Nenova, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008.
• Matthew Padilla, Preparing for the Unknown: The Threat of Agroterrorism, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Journal9, No. 1 (Fall 2008).
• Mira Burri-Nenova, The Long Tail of the Rainbow Serpent: New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, November 25, 2008.
• Christopher A. Shaw, Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games, New Society Publishers, 2008.
2007
• Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation Theory, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.
• Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini, Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
• Karen Guttieri, Jessica Piombo, Interim governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007.
• Ritva Levo-Henriksson, Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication (Indigenous Peoples and Politics), Routledge, 2007.
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Working Papers 41, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore October 16, 2007.
• The National Security Implications of Climate Change, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, September 27, 2007.
• Mark A. Smith and Keith Giles, "Russia and the Arctic: 'The Last Dash North," Shrivenham, UK: Defence Academy of the UK, Advanced Research and Assessment Group, Russan Series 7, no. 26 (September 2007).
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces 33, No. 3 (2007).
2000-2006
• Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2007.
• Philip Joseph, American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
LTC Trent A. Pickering, USAF, A Nuclear Dilemma: Korean War Déjà vu, Master's Thesis, US Army War College, March 2006.
• Ryan Petersen, Be Our Guest, but Please Don't Stay: A Comparison of US and German Immigration, Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 14, No. 1 (2006-07).
• Alvin Benn, Producers Urged to Remain Vigilant: Government and Industry Focus on Agriterrorism, Alabama Farmers Co-op Cooperative Farming News, September 2005.
• David O. Meteyer, The Art of Peace: Dissuading China from Developing Counter Space Weapons, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
• Christian Enemark, Disease Security in Northeast Asia: Biological Weapons and Natural Plagues, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2004.
• Wade L. Huntley, Unthinking the Unthinkable: US Nuclear Policy and Asymmetric Threats, Strategic Insights III, Issue 2 (February 2004).
• Frederick J. Moll, The Legal & Technological Advantages of a North American Perimeter In the War Against Terrorism,Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter 2 (Spring 2004).
• Neil Blair Christensen, Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003.
• Dean C. Alexander, Business Confronts Terrorism: Risks and Responses, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
• Dave McComb, Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
• Michael J. Mazarr, Information Technology and World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Maximilian C. Forte, Adelaide University (Australia), We are not Extinct: Caribbean Indigeneity and the Internet, Sincronía, Spring 2002, sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/CyberIndigen.htm.
• Andrew E. Lieberman, Bringing Mayan Language and Culture Across the Digital Divide,” Academy for Educational Development, Profiles in Developmenty, TechKnowLogia, July-September 2002.
• Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, MIT Press, 2000.
• Valerie Alia, Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People, University of British Columbia Press, 2000.
1990-1999
• Magdalena A.K. Muir, Analysis of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and marine protected areas under the Oceans Act, Report Prepared for the FJMC, International Energy, Environmental and Legal Services Ltd, Calgary, 1997.
• Joël Demay, The Persistence and Creativity of Canadian Aboriginal Newspapers, Canadian Journal of Communication 18, No 1 (1993).
• Joël Demay, Clarifying Ambiguities: The Rapidly Changing Life of the Canadian Aboriginal Print Media, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XI, 1 (1991): 95-112.
Undated
• Wikipedia entries on: "Provinces and territories of Canada," citing Barry Scott Zellen (2009), On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty; "Military history of Canada," citing Barry Scott Zellen (2009), On thin ice: the Inuit, the state, and the challenge of Arctic Sovereignty; "Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary," citing Zellen, Barry Scott (2008), Breaking the ice: from land claims to tribal sovereignty; "2008 Tibetan unrest," citing Zellen, Barry, Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front, Strategic Insights, Volume VII, Issue April 2, 2008, Monterey: Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC); and "Broken-Backed War Theory," citing Zellen, Barry Scott (December 2011). State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, The Bomb, and the Birth of Bipolar World.
• Andrew E. Lieberman, "Taking Ownership: Strengthening Indigenous Cultures and Languages," LearnLink, Academy for Educational Development, Undated.
In the News: Media Mentions:
Zellen’s first book from CH.AR.GE is Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic (Lexington Books 2008). Now in its second printing, BTI examines the political modernization of the Arctic as the region's indigenous people reclaimed much of their traditional sovereignty using contemporary constitutional, legal, and political processes, resulting in the emergence of a neotribal fusion of indigenous and modern political institutions, with overlapping governing structures transforming the relationship of tribe and state from inherent conflict to collaboration and functional integration.
In its sequel, On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books, November 2009), Zellen examines the ongoing challenges of asserting sovereignty in the Arctic region, as indigenous sub-state and modern state actors each seek to influence the evolution of diplomatic and strategic policies in the circumpolar region, and to determine Arctic security policies, resulting in the emergence of new concepts wedding indigenous, sub-state cultural values with "raison d'etat."
Zellen's third book produced as part of CH.AR.GE is Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger 2009), published in October 2009 as part of Praeger's Security and the Environment Series. Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom examines the geostrategic impacts of a polar thaw, and questions the politically-biased climate-change industry, and its overly pessimistic presumptions of climate doom, positing that a post-Arctic world could be a more united, properous and peaceful world. Published two months before the climate-gate scandal broke, Zellen's book offered a new, prescient, and non-partisan perspective on what he calls the "post-Arctic world."
The fourth book from CH.AR.GE, is The Fast Changing Arctic - Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (2013), an anthology edited by Zellen featuring the work of some of the world's leading Arctic security experts from the Alaska, Canada, the lower 48, Europe and Asia.
CH.AR.GE 2.0
The next phase of the project, dubbed CH.AR.GE 2.0, has two parts; the first will look beyond the Arctic basin to the other side of the treeline where there has been a great deal of activity on the land claims and self-government front across the entire Dene/Athabaskan homeland, from Alaska all the way to the U.S. southwest. The second part of CH.AR.GE 2.0 will look even further beyond the Arctic to the other side of the planet, to the southern continent, Antarctica, where the consequences of a planetary thaw promise to be profound.
The Other Side of the Treeline:
My earlier comparative work on Arctic governance and the post-land claims environment of the North American Arctic focused largely on the land claims north of the treeline with the exception of the Gwich’in land claim in the Western Arctic region just south of the treeline (with some overlap claims to the north). But the next phase of the project will look to the south of the treeline at the comparative land claims experience across the vast Dene/Athabaskan stretching from Alaska through the Yukon and southwestern NWT on down into the western provinces and states – a diverse spectrum of jurisdictions with different constitutional structures and third party interests resulting in a fascinating and complex range of agreements and solutions for greater Aboriginal self-governance ranging from the Navajo Nation complete with an independent justice system and tribal police force in the south all the way up to Alaska with its mix of Alaska Native Corporations at the regional and village level.
The Other Side of the Planet:
Next planned is a volume comparing the treaty structures of Antarctica with those of Alaska and the Canadian North, considering if the Northern model for economic modernization and resource development described by Wally Hickel as the “Alaska Solution” might better serve humanity in a warmer world than the complex diplomatic structure negotiated for Cold War-era Antarctica which aimed primarily to prevent the southern continent’s militarization, and to limit human activity to scientific research, and the prevention the exploration and development of its potentially massive natural resource base. Having developed a robust set of treaties and legislation that fosters the co-management of northern resources, the development of rural and indigenous economies, the training and education of young northerners to better compete in the globalized world, and the devolution of governmental power to the regional and local levels, northern treaties are inherently democratic, distinctly multicultural, and present the world with a unique decision-making and conflict resolution model that recognizes the constitutional supremacy of the sovereign state but protects the rights of indigenous minorities within the state while committing to the preservation of natural ecosystems and the environment – in short, balancing the interests of diverse stakeholders, from the northern trapper all the way to the multinational energy or mining company, and developing local and regional economies while protecting traditional subsistence, and the ecological health and diversity required for a subsistence economy to survive. It is this commitment to balance, and to creating wealth for the benefit of humanity, that suggests to us that the northern model, the “Alaska Solution,” may well better serve Antarctica than its current treaty structure as devised by diplomats with little interest in subsistence hunters, trappers and fishermen and even less in minerals and energy development.
In addition to the evolving treaty structure in Antarctica and lessons that can be applied from the other side of the planet, we are also commencing some preliminary comparative research from the other "top of the world" - the Himalaya (and the hill tribe country on its flanks), where other models of development and tribal modernization have been developed and from which much can be learned.
Published Books:
Authored Monographs:
- Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic, Lexington Books, March 2008
- Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic, ABC-Clio / Praeger Security and the Environment, October 2009
- On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty, Lexington Books, November 2009
- The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Order, ABC-Clio / Praeger Security International, August 2011:
- Volume 1: State of Hope: Order in the Age of Classical War
- Volume 2: State of Fear: Order in the Age of Limited War
- Volume 3: State of Awe: Order in the Age of Total War
- Volume 4: State of Siege: Order in the Age of Insurgency
- State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World, Continuum Books, December 2011
- The Art of War in an Asymmetric World: Strategy for the Post-Cold War World, Continuum Books, July 2012
- State of Recovery: The Quest to Restore Homeland Security After 9/11, Bloomsbury Academic, January 2013
Edited Volumes:
- The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warming World, University of Calgary Press, July 2013 (editor)
- Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency, Stanford University Press, January 2014 (co-editor)
- Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict, Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series (co-editor, October 2015 – forthcoming)
Articles & Chapters: Arctic and Tribal Issues:
- "Where East and West Converge: The U.S. Embrace of Collaborative Security for the Arctic," in The Handbook on the Politics of the Arctic (Elgar Publishing, forthcoming November 2015), Geir Hønneland and Leif Christian Jensen, eds.
- "Introduction" (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, forthcoming October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "From Counter-mapping to Co-management: The Inuit, the State and the Quest for Collaborative Arctic Sovereignty," in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, forthcoming October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "Conclusion" (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series, forthcoming October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "Introduction" (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), in Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "Conclusion" (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), in Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- The Restoration of Shan Sovereignty: Some Reflections (The Shan Herald)
- Part IV: Paths to Freedom and Shan Independence, 11 Dec 2012
- Part III: From Statelessness to Empowerment: Lessons from the Circumpolar Inuit, 5 Sep 2012
- Part II: Organic vs. Synthetic States: The Next Fault Line of World Politics, 31 Aug 2012
- Part I: American Power and the Shan Restoration: An Alignment of Interests in a Changing World, 29 Aug 2012
- A New Trinity for an Asymmetric World: The Organic, Synthetic and Ethereal (Small Wars Journal, August 20, 2012)
- Rethinking the Subcomponents of World Order (Small Wars Journal, August 15, 2012)
- Arctic Spring II: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography School Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2012.
- Arctic Spring I: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography Academic Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2011.
- Dumbfounded: A Short Play in Three Acts (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 2, Issue 1)
- Cold Front on a Warming Arctic by Barry S. Zellen (Proceedings Magazine 137/5/1299 (May 2011))
- Cold Front: Maritime Security and the Polar Thaw – New Challenges for Arctic Security (Culture & Conflict Review, Vol 5, Issue 2)
- Compass: 20 Years Ago: 1991 notable for Natives in Alaska, Canada, by Barry S. Zellen (Anchorage Daily News, January 28, 2011)
- Into the Promised Land North of Sixty, by Barry S. Zellen (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 1, Issue 3, December 2010)
- North Corps: A Circumpolar Program to Help the North, by Barry S. Zellen (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 9 (October 2010))
- Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World, by Barry S. Zellen (SSRN, September 2010)
- Clan, the State, and War: Lessons from the Far North by Barry S. Zellen (Joint Forces Quarterly 58, July 2010)
- Toward North Corps by Barry S. Zellen (Journal of Northern Studies, Spring/Summer 2010)
- Cold Front: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit: A Year after the Inuit Re-Assert their Sovereignty, Washington Takes Their Side by Barry S. Zellen (Journal of Military and Security Studies 12, No 3 (Spring 2010))
- The Inuit, the State, and the Battle for the Arctic (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2010)
- Cold Snap: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit, by Barry S. Zellen (Culture and Conflict Review, April 2010)
- Reasserting Inuit Sovereignty, by Barry S. Zellen (Ester Republic, April 2010)
- Promised Land, II, by Barry S. Zellen (49 Writers, April 29, 2010)
- Promised Land I, by Barry S. Zellen (49 Writers, April 28, 2010)
- Showdown, II: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit, by Barry S. Zellen (Tundra Telegraph, April 27 2010)
- Showdown, I: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic, by Barry S. Zellen (Tundra Telegraph, April 16, 2010)
- Arctic Land Claims Journey, by Barry S. Zellen (Tundra Telegraph, April 6, 2010)
- State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 3, by Barry S. Zellen (49Writers, April 1, 2010)
- State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 2, by Barry S. Zellen (49Writers, March 31, 2010)
- State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 1, by Barry S. Zellen (49Writers, March 25, 2010)
- Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy, by Barry S. Zellen (Tundra Telegraph, March 22, 2010)
- On Thin Ice, by Barry S. Zellen (Tundra Telegraph, March 17, 2010)
- Arctic Showdown: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic, by Barry S. Zellen (The Ester Republic, March 2010)
- The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 2, by Barry S. Zellen (The Ester Republic, February 2010)
- The Inuit, the State, and the Battle for the Arctic, by Barry S. Zellen (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2010, 57-64)
- The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 1, by Barry S. Zellen (The Ester Republic, January 2010)
- From Climategate to Copenhagen, by Barry S. Zellen (Alaska Report, December 17 2009)
- Opportunity in a Post-Arctic World, by Barry S. Zellen (Juneau Empire, December 13, 2009)
- The End of the World as We Know It: A Q&A with Barry Zellen on Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom (Alaska Report, December 6, 2009)
- Toward North Corps: Time for a Circumpolar Peace Corps Program to Help Arctic Achieve Full Potential, by Barry S. Zellen (Alaska Report, Nov 26, 2009)
- Olympic Torch's Journey Warms Northern Communities, by Barry S. Zellen (Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon
- Star-Phoenix, Canada.com and GlobalTV.com, November 12, 2009)
- Torch Has Reinforced Unity Across a Vast Land, by Barry S. Zellen (Whitehorse Star, November 9, 2009)
- Tribe, State, and War, by Barry S. Zellen (The Culture and Conflict Review, November 2009)
- Ice-Free Boom, by Barry S. Zellen (The Financial Post, October 27, 2009)
- Lessons from the 'Last Frontier': Tribe/State Conflict and the Modern World by Barry S. Zellen (The Culture and Conflict Review, April 2009)
- War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War, by Barry S. Zellen (Strategic Insights, April 2009)
- Toward a Post-Arctic World, by Barry S. Zellen (Strategic Insights, January 2009)
- Melting Ice Heralds a New World of Opportunity, by Barry S. Zellen (Whitehorse Star, June 4, 2008)
- Arctic Lessons: An Interview with Barry Scott Zellen (American Chronicle, May 26, 2008)
- The Upside of Climate Change, by Barry S. Zellen (News North, May 1, 2008)
- On Thin Ice: As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges, by Barry S. Zellen (The Ester Republic 10, No. 5 (May 2008))
- We Should Warm to the Idea of Melting Poles, by Barry S. Zellen (Toronto Globe and Mail, April 28, 2008)
- As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges, by Barry S. Zellen (Alaska Report, April 20, 2008)
- Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins, by Barry S. Zellen (Strategic Insights, February 2008)
- Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order (an interview with Michael T. Klare), by Barry S. Zellen (Strategic Insights,
- February 2008)
- Cold Front: As accelerated global warming reveals hidden riches beneath polar sea, new conflicts heat up, by Barry S. Zellen (Security Innovator, July 2007)
- Resource Conflicts on the Rise: Strategic competition for natural resources rapidly redefines the world order, by Barry S. Zellen (Security Innovator, May 2007)
- Tribalism and the Future of Conflict, by Barry S. Zellen (The Culture and Conflict Review, March 2007)
- The Northern Front in the GWOT: Alaska Pipeline Security after 9/11, by Barry S. Zellen (Security Innovator, June 2006)
Articles and Chapters on War, Strategy and Security:
- "Conclusion" (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series, forthcoming October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "Introduction" (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), in Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- "Conclusion" (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), in Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
- The Restoration of Shan Sovereignty: Some Reflections (The Shan Herald)
- Part IV: Paths to Freedom and Shan Independence, 11 Dec 2012
- Part III: From Statelessness to Empowerment: Lessons from the Circumpolar Inuit, 5 Sep 2012
- Part II: Organic vs. Synthetic States: The Next Fault Line of World Politics, 31 Aug 2012
- Part I: American Power and the Shan Restoration: An Alignment of Interests in a Changing World, 29 Aug 2012
- A New Trinity for an Asymmetric World: The Organic, Synthetic and Ethereal (Small Wars Journal, August 20, 2012)
- Rethinking the Subcomponents of World Order (Small Wars Journal, August 15, 2012)
- City, State and More: Singapore’s Experiment in Contemporary Sovereignty (The Culture and Conflict Review, Spring 2012)
- Muscular Nonviolence: People Powered Insurgencies Stage a Stunning Resurgence (Culture & Conflict Review, February 2011)
- Inside Operation Hemorrhage: AQAP Releases Special Edition of Inspire (Culture & Conflict Review, December 2010)
- Beyond the Terror War (Culture & Conflict Review, August 2010)
- Author Interview & Book Review: Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years Under Chinese Rule (by Arjia Rinpoche) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
- Book Review: Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America (by Martin Edwin Andersen) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
- Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November/December 2009)
- Bracing for Bioterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2009)
- Missile Defense: Hope or Hype? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2009)
- UAVs to the Rescue (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2009)
- GWOT Reconsidered (Culture & Conflict Review, July 2009)
- Countdown to a Nuclear Iran (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2009)
- The Lingering Liquid Bomb Threat (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2009)
- War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War (Strategic Insights, April 2009)
- The GWOT in Transition: A New Name for an Old Conflict (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2009)
- Handle with Care: Letter Bombs and Their Lethal Delivery (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2009)
- Securing the Olympics: Lessons of Beijing (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2009)
- Aviation Security at a Crossroads (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2009)
- Rising Chaos on the Southern Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2008)
- Order in the Court, or Murder in the Court? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2008)
- Book Review: The Consolidation of Dictatorship in Russia: An Inside View of the Demise of Democracy (Strategic Insights, September 2008)
- Lessons of Iraq: Tribalism, State Collapse and the Emerging Sub-State Contours of the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2008)
- Rising Cabin Pressure: Despite major gains in aviation security since 9/11, in-cabin insecurity persists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2008)
- Stadium Insecurity: America’s next 9/11 might be a mass-casualty attack of a sports stadium packed with fans (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
- Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
- Pipeline Terror on the Rise across the Americas: But Connection to Global Terror War Unlikely (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2008)
- Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (Strategic Insights, April 2008)
- Outsourcing War: The privatization of war, which dates back to antiquity, is now back in favor (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2008)
- Southeast Asia's Proliferation Paradox: Without WMD Worries, Small Arms Present Big Proliferation Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2008)
- Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order (an interview with Michael T. Klare) (Strategic Insights, February 2008)
- Document Fraud and Technology, a Double-Edged Sword (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2008)
- China Rising: Will economic growth transform China from economic partner to strategic adversary? (Strategic Insights, September 2007)
- Cold Front: As accelerated global warming reveals hidden riches beneath polar sea, new conflicts heat up
- (Strategic Insights, July/August 2007)
- Olympic Security in the Age of Mass Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2007)
- Resource Conflicts on the Rise: Strategic competition for natural resources rapidly redefines the world order (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2007)
- Mitigating the Dangers of Strategic Surprise: Singapore rises to the occasion with RAHS (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2007)
- Whither Victory in the War on Terror? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2007)
- After Katrina: Confronting the Business Continuity Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2007)
- Combating Identity Theft: Rise in cyber-crime demands a coordinated response (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2007)
- In Post-Coup Thailand, Generals Change Course as Southern Insurgency Intensifies (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2006)
- The North Korean Missile Mess: DPRK’s July 4th Tests Generate Divergent Responses from East and West (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2006)
- The Northern Front in the GWOT: Alaska Pipeline Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2006)
- America’s Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2006)
- Securing the DC Metro (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2006)
- Truck Bombing Shifts into High Gear (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2006)
- The Axis of Evil Revisited (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2006)
- ‘Peace is Hell’: Behind the Bombs of Basra (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2006)
- Nuclear Terrorism: Re-Thinking the Unthinkable after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2006)
- Confronting the Specter of Agriterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2004)
- Enhancing America's Border & Port Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November 2004)
- Warrior Philosophers to the Rescue (Intelligence and Warning America, May 2004)
- Technology Tames the 'Scariest Place on Earth' (SecurityInnovator, June 2003)
- 'En-Gulfed' by War: A Tragedy in Three Acts (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2002)
- Border Security and the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2002)
Invited Panels, Presentations and Boards
- Invited by the Arctic Research Group of the U.S. Naval War College to present a guest talk as part of its Distinguished Arctic Speakers Series, Newport Rhode Island, August 26, 2015
- Invited to participate on a panel on "Impacts Research" at a conference at the National Center for Atmospheric Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 3-4 June 2015 (declined – scheduling conflict)
- Invited to participate on a webinar panel by the National Academy Committee for Grand Challenges in Global Development on “The Arctic: Data and Mapping Unveiling a New Economy,” 15 April 2015 (declined – scheduling conflict)
- Invited by the Alaska Law Review (ALR) to present a paper at the 2014 ALR Fall Symposium, "North to the Future: Opportunities and Change in Alaska's Emerging Frontiers," at the University of Alaska, Anchorage on a panel on "Governance Structures in the Face of a Rapidly Changing Climate." My paper was titled "From Co-Management to Collaborative Sovereignty: The Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic," 16 Oct 2014
- Invited to present the Keynote Address to the Conference on Terrorist Innovation at the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, St Andrews University, held at Pembroke College, Oxford University, 1 Sep 2014
- Invited to serve as Session Facilitator on Arctic oil spill response, Arctic Security Foresight Exercise at the Center for a New American Security, Washington, DC, 19 Nov. 19 2013 (declined – scheduling conflict)
- Invited to serve as Rapporteur at the Alaska and the New Maritime Arctic Conference, University of Alaska, Anchorage AK, 6-8 Nov 2013 (declined – scheduling conflict)
- Invited to serve as Morning Plenary Chair, 2012 Arctic Forum, Washington, DC, 1 May 2012 (declined – scheduling conflict)
- Invited to attend Arctic Perspectives Initiative Open Space Conference, Dortmund, Germany, September 24-26, 2010
- Invited to serve as Panelist on Arctic Security, APSA2010 Conference, Washington DC, September 2-5, 2010
- Invited to serve as Chair of the Panel on Arctic Security, International Security Affairs Committee/International Security Association Conference, Monterey, October 14-15, 2009
- Invited to serve as Rapporteur, Ditchley Conference on the Arctic Region in the Twenty-First Century, Quebec, September 4-6, 2009
- Invited to serve as Panelist on the Tribal Dimensions of International Conflict, Conference on Culture, Conflict and COIN, Program for Culture and Conflict Studies, Naval Postgraduate School, March 23, 2009
- Invited to serve as Guest Speaker on The Land claims Journey: Toward a Reconciliation of Tribe at the International Security Committee, Manhattan Bar Association, February 19, 2009
- Invited to serve as Guest Lecturer on Toward a Post-Arctic World, Arctic Sovereignty Lecture Series, Jackson School of International Studies/Canadian Studies Center, University of Washington, February 13, 2009
- Invited to serve as Panelist on Morning Plenary at the On Thin Ice: The Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic Region Conference, The Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies, Monterey, California, December 8, 2009
- Invited to do a Book Reading from Breaking the Ice at the University of Alaska Anchorage Bookstore, September 22, 2008
- Invited to serve as a Panelist on both the Policy, Sustainability Science and Adaptive Governance and the Alaska Native Leadership panels at the 2008 Arctic Science Conference, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, September 17, 2008
- Invited to present poster at the Arctic Forum on “Tipping Points: The Arctic & Global Change” in DC, May 13-15, 2008.
- Invited to present Guest Lecture on Indigenous Media in the Arctic, Center for Canadian-American Studies, Western Washington University, October 21, 1998
- Invited to present Luncheon Brownbag Seminar on Alaska and Canadian Native Land Claims, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, October 9, 1993
- Invited to present Guest Lecture on Guerrilla Warfare in History and Theory to Professor Ken Waltz's Introduction to International Relations course, University of California, Berkeley, April 14, 1988
Reviews of Published Books:
Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic (Lexington Books, 2008)
• Professor Barry M. Gough, Wilfrid Laurier University, Choice Reviews Online, February 2009. Recommended: Graduate students, faculty, professionals. “This history of the Alaskan and Canadian arctic breaks new ground with its contemporary narration and analysis of the past three decades of political developments and with its rich findings based on documentary and Web research. Not a work in comparative history, this is more of a parallel treatment of government actions in regard to the norths of the two countries and the responses of the indigenous peoples ... to develop Native self-sufficiency and to solve the persistent problems of land claims by various First Nations, including Inuit, Inuvialuit, and Gwich'in. This large account will guide future researchers and government agents.”
• Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010): "A detailed narrative of Inuit and northern Amerindians' struggle for control over their traditional lands and rights to self-government in Alaska and northern Canada."
• Mary Guss, University of Arizona (UA) NativeNet, "The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Bibliography."
On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books, 2009)
• Matt Wiseman, "MattWiseman.ca," Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, May 31, 2013: "In arguing that history has not served the interests of Arctic peoples especially well, Barry Zellen’s On Thin Ice (2009) addresses contemporary Indigenous relations with academic integrity. Zellen’s examination focuses on Inuit peoples throughout the Arctic, and although it is not restricted to the Canadian North, it addresses issues of land claims and self-government specifically related to Canada’s past. ... On Thin Ice is a thorough examination of current issues facing both Canada’s federal government and the regions Indigenous populations. On Thin Ice is a broad synthesis that examines the current historiography of Indigenous relations in the Arctic."
• Ted L. McDorman, “From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief,” Ocean Development & International Law 42, No. 3 (August 2011), 280-287: "This is a book about the politics, both domestic and regional, of the awakening of global interest in the Arctic ... a useful book for context."
• Martin Edwin Andersen, "A Must Read from the Troubador of the Land of the Midnight Sun," Amazon Reader Review, February 24, 2010: "5 Stars Out of 5. In On Thin Ice, Barry Scott Zellen poses tough questions about Canada's claims to a vast swathe of the soon-to-be hotly contested resource-rich Arctic. Zellen not only shows how much these depend on whether a collaborative and interdependent relationship can be successfully forged with Native peoples struggling to preserve fragile ecosystems and their own ethnic identity, but how conceptions of human security, tribal security and national security are inexorably tied together. Zellen's keen insight and painstaking research suggests that truths from the land of the midnight sun might help to illuminate and guide the struggles of indigenous peoples around the globe. On Thin Ice is a "must read" for the 21st century."
Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger, 2009)
• Selected for "Special Focus: Good Winter Reads," Seniors Connect, Cleveland Public Library, 2012.
• Svein Vigeland Rottem, “Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic,” Polar Record (December 2010): “Timely and intriguing. ... Zellen aims high and touches upon a wide range of highly interesting approaches on how to grasp and analyse the challenges and opportunities in the region. One could argue that this leads to a lack of analytical depth, but at the same time this wide scope offers its audience easy access, insight and plenty of food for thought into a wide range of pressing topics within the area of post cold war international relations. The book is a central contribution to the debate on the future of the Arctic.”
• Ken Atkinson, “Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic,” British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23, Number 2 (November 2010), 324: “The strength of the book lies in its treatment of the surge of activities by the circumpolar states in the 2000s in response to the predicted decline in sea-ice coverage. For example, the need for information on the position of the continental shelf has resulted in the present race by states to map the Arctic oceanbed, in a search for evidence to put before the International Seabed Authority (ISA) under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This explains the recently updated Arctic policies of Canada and the US, and Russia’s dramatic flag-planting escapades at the North Pole in 2007. On these issues the book is commendably up-todate, and we are provided with over 50 pages of endnotes and bibliography (including many websites) for further reference.”
• Justin Klugh, “Book Review Wednesday: Books for the Cold at Heart,” The Green Life (Sierra Club), September 22, 2010: “The authors challenge some specific perspectives; most notably, yours. Should you be one of the many who don't live in Alaska, the frozen north is just that, and not much else. But for those who reside there, it's their neighborhood, their livelihood, and their home. A scientific look at just where global warming is going to leave us adds a foreboding sense of introspection for more than just those standing on the doorstep of climate change.”
• Kelley Crawford, Security and Defense Studies Review, Spring-Summer 2010: “Zellen deserves credit for providing another perspective on the Arctic’s situation where most of the literature is only concerned with the negative impacts of climate change.”
• Professor Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, University of Toronto, Journal of the ARCTIC, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2010: “Zellen has written a book that will make us think, and for that, his contribution should be lauded and welcomed as a source of important discussion among students and scholars of northern studies and northern policy makers alike.”
• Roger G. Barry, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, February 2010: “a timely and topical book… useful to residents of the north and scientists who work there, policy makers, and businesses with Arctic activities.”
• SciTech Book News (December 2009)
• Foreign Policy Association Editor's Pick (October 2009)
• Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), Virtual Research Repository, Theoretical and Conceptual Issues, Ecology: Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (B.S. Zellen).
The Realist Tradition in International Relations: Foundations of Western Order, 4 Volumes (Praeger, 2011)
• SciTech Book News (December 2011): “Zellen (Naval Postgraduate School) has had an energetic passion for international relations theory for several decades, with a focus on Arctic security and circumpolar politics. Ambassador David T. Killion (US Ambassador to UNESCO) provides an introduction to this four-volume work, beginning with a reminiscence of his first course with Zellen at Wesleyan University in 1986, which included 'a veritable who's who of realism from the classical era up to the 20th century....' The foreword by Joel M. Ostrow (political science, Benedictine U.) points out that this treatise, for many, is long awaited. Ostrow explains that Zellen '...offers unique insights into the entire concept of the nation-state.' He continues, advising that reading this work '...is a massive journey...not for the faint of heart' and suggesting that students of international relations theory will be most interested in Zellen's development of constructive realism theory historically, philosophically, and politically. Zellen discusses the rise of the modern nation-state, explores (Ostrow's words) the 'application and misapplication of the ideas [of constructive realism],' and 'chronicles strategic thought during the age of total war' and reactions against the nation-state (as evidenced by the attacks of 9/11). The four volumes each have a focus and are titled as follows: v.1: State of Hope, v.2: State of Fear,, v.3: State of Awe, and v.4: State of Siege. Each volume is separately indexed.”
• Goodreads (December 2012): "Rated: 4 of 5 stars. Heavy reading. Zellen has a writing style that strikes a balance between scholar and poet as he traces Realism from Thucydides to Hitler. This first book in his four volume series is extremely informative, but excessively, unnecessarily wordy. It is also highly repetitive ..."
State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (Continuum Books, 2011)
• "Brodie and War" by Dr. B.A. Clayton, Amazon UK, May 29, 2012: "An excellent account of Bernard Brodie's writings and thinking. Brodie was an eminent expert on military and political strategy. He was one of the first to interpret the significance of nuclear weapons, and later to formulate the theory of limited nuclear war. His writings on Clausewitz are very useful for the student. Like the Prussian he emphasized the need for war to have a reasonable objective. For Brodie the question that Marshal Foch used to ask: 'De quoi s'agit-il' is crucial. It is a great pity that our politicians did not consider it before entering on the fiascoes in Iraq and Afghanistan. I met Bernard Brodie several times at IISS Conferences. He was a very humane and charming man." 5.0 out of 5 stars.
• Strategy & Defence Planning: Meeting the challenge of uncertainty, by Colin S. Gray (Oxford University Press 2014), p104, n25: 'This professional challenge was well flagged and discussed in Bernard Brodie, War and Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1973), ch. 10. Three first-rate studies help explain Brodie’s professional position, located as he was between and among history, social science, and physical science. See Ken Booth, ‘Bernard Brodie’, in John Baylis and John Garnett, eds., Makers of Nuclear Strategy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991), 19–54; Barry H. Steiner, Bernard Brodie and the Foundations of American Nuclear Strategy (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1991); and Barry Scott Zellen, State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (New York: Continuum, 2012).' Also cited on p105, n33, and p190, n33: 'Notwithstanding its title and argument in praise of economics as a science, there is little in Bernard Brodie’s brilliant 1949 argument in ‘Strategy as a science’ ... with which I disagree. Brodie’s argument, as it were from the ‘Stone Age’ of defence analysis in the late 1940s, needs to be read in the light of the argument in his last major work, War and Politics, esp. ch. 10. Barry Scott Zellen, State of Doom: Beyond Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World (New York: Continuum, 2012), is essential.'
• The Clausewitz Home Page, Clausewitz Bookstore: New Releases on Clausewitz.
The Art of War in an Asymmetric World: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era (Continuum Books, 2012):
• The LSE School of Economics and Political Science Blog, August 18, 2013: "Barry Scott Zellen explores how the U.S. has had to adapt to the new asymmetrical world of conflict that followed the end of the Cold War and that culminates with today’s global jihadist movements. Featuring the works of key theorists such as John Arquilla, Thomas P.M. Barnett, Arthur K. Cebrowski, and David Ronfeldt, this book is to be recommended to students of strategic studies willing to bear with this dense study from beginning to end, writes Andrew McCracken: 'The Art of War in an Asymmetric World – or AWAW, to use the sort of acronym so beloved of the armed forces – is both a history of military planning in the US over the past few decades and a prescription aimed at what the author considers to be its flaws. Barry Scott Zellen writes: “indigenous tribes and the most modern of states are waging a new and very asymmetric kind of conflict, one that is redefining the very building blocks of world order.” In AWAW, Zellen synthesises the academic discourse surrounding America’s military strategy over the past few decades. Inevitably for such a study, the war on terror looms large throughout; subject of the book’s central chapter, the conflict also informs the entirety of AWAW. ... The work itself is an esoteric tome unlikely to appeal to readers unfamiliar with the field. Typically for strategic studies, familiarity with the works of Sun Tzu, Clausewitz and lesser theorists, in addition to a grounding in how the war on terror has unfolded, is taken as a given. Indubitably, this is not Contemporary Warfare for Dummies.'"
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State of Recovery: The Quest to Restore American Security After 9/11 (Bloomsbury 2013):
• Book Review of State of Recovery in Journal of Terrorism Research (JTR), Volume 5, Issue 2 (May 2014), p59-61. Reviewed by Richard English, Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), at the University of St Andrews:
"‘Technology to the Rescue.’ Barry Scott Zellen’s intriguing and impressive new book examines the deployment of technological innovation by the United States, as it has attempted to ensure its security from threat after the atrocity of 9/11. In the words of Zellen’s own manifesto here: ‘State of Recovery examines the numerous efforts by technologists and homeland security policy makers dedicated to restoring security and ameliorating the insecurity felt after the attacks more than a decade ago.’ It is a fascinating account. The author considers the dramatic US rise in technology spending, both public and private, since 2001; he assesses the remarkable innovation evident in recent years in biometrics, in information security, and in protection regarding aviation, underground travel, sporting events, food, and the mail system, as well as the reorganization (with the Department of Homeland Security and so forth) of US structures of prevention; he ranges widely over non-terrorist dangers, such as those posed by hostile states (North Korea, Iran), by illegal migration into America, and by increasing border violence. Zellen is an admirably prolific and highly intelligent scholar. Here, he recognizes that some measure of insecurity and threat will prove residual. And some very good points are made. One of the repeatedly important lessons which emerges from this thoughtful book is the constant need for ensuring intra- and inter-state coordination, cooperation, and partnerships (together with organizational streamlining). Regrettably, it is an insight more easily stated than it is adhered to in effective manner. No book is flawless. Zellen does not sustainedly explore the degree to which some of the USA’s main counter- terrorist efforts in recent years (especially in relation to Iraq) have actually generated more intense kinds of terrorist threat than had previously existed. Relatedly, he is better on the innovative technological brilliance involved in, for example, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles than he is in considering the possible blowback costs which the USA and its allies are likely to have to pay for drones’ lethal use. Here, as so often, there can be a seeming disjunction between the extraordinarily high levels of technical and technological sophistication shown by counter-terrorist states, and the sometimes crass naivety of states’ political and social approaches to the causation and likely dynamics of enduring conflict. Zellen has interviewed some fascinating people involved in the world which he delineates. At times, I felt that he might have interrogated their assumptions and claims rather more stringently than he does, in light of other–corroborating or sceptical–sources. So the chapter on nuclear terrorism might perhaps be justified in its somewhat anxious tone; but this would have seemed more persuasive to me had Zellen engaged with the less alarmist arguments of scholars such as Michael Levi (which he does not). One of the things that Zellen suggests is that ‘both the terrorists as well as those who fight them are finding that the internet has become a theatre of war unto itself ’. …"
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• Book Review of State of Recovery in British Association for American Studies' U.S. Studies Online Forum for New Writing.Reviewed by Dafydd Townley, September 2, 2015.
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11th 2001 was a watershed moment in national security in the United States. ... The Bush Administration’s reaction was the formation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in January 2003 with a budget of $29.4 billion as part of a massive federal government reshuffle. This led to what Barry Scott Zellen describes as ‘an unprecedented surge in governmental investment in new technologies for homeland security.’(9) It is this government investment in the technology industry and the industry’s subsequent impact on the maintenance of national security that is the subject of Zellen’s publication. State of Recovery highlights in particular where government-led initiatives to secure the United States’ borders were influenced by corporate innovation through governmental funding and by developments within the consumer market since the Twin Towers attack. This is exemplified by the increase in efficiency and speed of development of consumer items such as mobile phones and tablets. As the war on terror became more technological, the military demand for greater technological advances became exponential, as did the funding. The increasing use of technology by both the US government and armed forces, and terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, leads Zellen to declare that ‘the internet has become a theatre of war unto itself.’(P24)
The book comprises of a number of essays written by Zellen which deal with the developments and innovation within information technology after the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. It addresses the issues faced by the US government after 9/11 to ensure the safety of the general public against terrorist attacks, and examines the attempts made by the US to make sure that any future hostilities occur as far away as possible from the US mainland. This is an impressive piece of scholarship by a recognised authority in his field. Zellen asserts that any successful national security program has to be as a result of successful partnerships, and it is a theory that is developed and supported by a wealth of information. The co-operation of government departments and technological corporations is illustrated throughout. The transformation of protection against online identity fraud is an example of this: already being developed by online security firms prior to 9/11, the necessity of restricting terrorist movement post 9/11 led to massive funding from the US government into the venture as part of the DHS’s Real ID Program. The program, part of the Real ID Act was an effort, says Zellen, to close the ‘revolving door to terror’. (33) It is Zellen’s examination of such juxtapositions that make this monograph such a unique and important contribution to the study of national security. ... State of Recovery is a remarkable piece of scholarship that fills a gap within the study of national security. It does not examine in detail the events or politics that led to the creation of the Bush Doctrine in the Post /11 era, rather it examines the role that information technology had in helping the Bush and Obama administrations realize their foreign policy, in particular its role in the Global War On Terror. It is an excellent supplement to more conventional national security studies, in particular highlighting the effect of the partnership between the federal government and technological corporations had on foreign policy, and the subsequent collateral effect on the consumer technological market.
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The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (University of Calgary Press, 2013):
• Betty Galbraith, Science Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, Washington State University in Northeastern Naturalist, Vol. 20, Issue 4, B10 (December 2013):
"Many have heard about the plight of the polar bear due to the shrinking of sea ice, but few have considered the other repercussions of global warming and the melting of sea ice in the Arctic. Luckily, circumpolar Arctic organizations, governments, and peoples have been considering this for many years. This book is a collection of essays on just these topics: sovereignty, strategic defense, national and environmental security, and global economics. Some of these essays consider the probable rush to grab territories, and to exploit new transportation routes and newly accessible natural resources. For example, a Russian flag was planted on the seabed of the North Pole in 2007. Corporations and countries are already positioning themselves to exploit oil and gas reserves currently under Arctic ice. This raises several questions: How can the Arctic nations peacefully manage these conflicting demands? What about the demands of non-Arctic nations that want a part of the spoils? Who will have the right to create and enforce environmental standards and rules? How will indigenous peoples fare? This is an excellent collection of essays from knowledgeable people. It is a must for anyone interested in geopolitics, international relations, and northern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."
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• Kristian Atand, of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, in The Journal of Polar Research (Vol 33, Feb 2014):
"How will the changes currently taking place in the Arctic affect the future nature of interstate relations in the region? To what extent, and how, will the decline in summer and winter sea ice in the Polar Basin lead to changes in the pattern of human activity in the Arctic? How do the Arctic states approach the region and each other, and to what extent are their Arctic strategies compatible? Will the Arctic become an arena of jurisdictional disputes and heightened military tension, or will it become a region of cooperation and prosperity? These are among the core questions addressed in The Fast-Changing Arctic: rethinking security for a warmer world, edited by Barry Scott Zellen. ... Zellen is a senior fellow at the Institute of the North, Alaska, where he directs the Fast-Changing Arctic project, which focuses on the geopolitical and other impacts of changes taking place in the circumpolar Arctic. Having worked on related issues since the end of the Cold War, as a journalist, editor and researcher, he has established himself as a prolific writer on Arctic and northern affairs. He is the author or editor of about 10 books and has several more on the way. ... The current book, which is a 400-page anthology featuring contributions by 20 authors, revisits many of the issues that were raised in Zellen’s monograph, Arctic doom, Arctic boom: the geopolitics of climate change in the Arctic, published in 2009. At the same time, the current book widens the perspective and adds new dimensions to the analysis. Overall, it makes for an enjoyable read. The 16 chapters of this book are organized into three main parts, “Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities”, “cooperation and conflict: paths forward” and “regional perspectives”. The book also includes a brief foreword by Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor, Mead Treadwell, a concluding chapter by the editor (“Stability and security in a post-Arctic world: towards a convergence of indigenous, state, and global interests at the top of the world”) and an eight-page afterword by University of Alaska professor, Lawson Brigham. ... Zellen has done a great job in assembling the contributions and presenting them for a wider audience in the form of a highly accessible anthology. The book is well structured, most of the relevant topics and perspectives are represented, and all of the chapters add to our understanding of the increasingly complex dynamics at play in the northern part of the globe."
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• Mike Cowton, in the February 25, 2014 edition of Eco Travel Guide, online at: http://www.ecotravelguide.eu/fast-changing-arctic/
REVIEW: THE FAST-CHANGING ARCTIC: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, edited by Barry Scott Zellen(University of Calgary Press):
"Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, the Northwest Passage sea route traverses the Arctic Ocean, following the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. and connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. First navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906, up until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout much of the year. However, climate change has reduced the pack ice, with summer Arctic sea-ice coverage shrinking by over a third in the past three decades. This shrinkage has seen the waterways becoming more navigable. That said, contested sovereignty claims over the waters have complicated shipping through the region. In his foreword, ‘Witnessing an Arctic Renaissance’, Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska, writes that ‘for Arctic states across the globe, the accessible Arctic Ocean presents opportunities of a lifetime, with energy resources, minerals, tourism and shipping potential making this increasingly accessible region a classic emerging market’. The planting of a Russian flag on the Arctic sea-bed beneath the North Pole in August 2007 is symbolic of the high stakes involved as the Arctic opens up to oil and gas exploration, shipping, tourism and increased human habitation. Much has been written on the climatological and ecological stresses on the region, with little addressed on the military, defence, strategic and macro-economic opportunities associated with polar thaw. Here, international scholars and military professionals explore the strategic consequences of sea-ice decline. Timely reading indeed, on sovereignty and territorial disputes, oil and gas exploration, fishing, coastguard responsibilities and Arctic tourism."
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• Valur Ingimundarson, of the University of Iceland, "Geostrategic Visions for the Arctic," in the March 2014 edition of H-Net's (Humanities and Social Sciences Online's) H-Diplo, online at: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=40301
"... Edited by Barry Scott Zellen, who has written extensively on Arctic geopolitics, The Fast Changing Arctic contains contributions from established and junior scholars as well as military and coast guard professionals ... together, they deal with a wide array of Arctic topics, such as military and defense, governance and regional management, Arctic strategies, environmental politics, maritime and shipping developments, and sovereignty and legal concerns. ... Zellen analyzes the U.S. military regional commands in Arctic areas, that is, the Northern Command (NORTHCOM), Pacific Command (PACOM), and European Command (EUCOM) areas. He asserts that EUCOM should, in the future, be responsible for Arctic defense since the potential threat does not emanate from China, whose interests in the region are largely economic in nature, but from Russia. As he puts it: “Proximity to an awakening Russian bear, and experience in taming its more aggressive instincts, will be an important key to a secure and peaceful North” (p. 244). An important part of such Western regional defenses--he maintains--has historically been through close ties to Greenland and Iceland. ... In his treatment of future Arctic developments, Zellen conjures Cold War utopian and dystopian visions for the Arctic. He argues that an “Arctic Spring” has the potential to transform the Arctic Basin “much like the Prague Spring promised to open up and integrate Czechoslovakia with the West” (p. 343). The hope it expressed, he continues--while temporarily crushed in 1968--was realized with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. In addition, he stresses the empowerment of Arctic indigenous peoples and sees an independent Greenland as a real possibility. In fact, the editor--who is steeped in a realist tradition--is the only contributor prepared to project Manichean Cold War schemes onto the Arctic in his assessment of future strategic developments. Sometimes, he goes way too far in his analogies--the discourse on the “Arctic Spring” and the “Prague Spring” is a case in point. But he is also willing to contemplate other cooperative scenarios and transformative and empowering possibilities for the Arctic indigenous peoples. Thus, despite the hyperbolic language, the Arctic is, in the end, not seen as a geostrategic fixture, as was the case during the Cold War, but as a region open to different interpretations and outcomes, including emancipatory potentials."
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• Nikolas Sellheim, Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Review of The Fast-Changing Arctic in Polar Record, published on 13 March 2014 by Cambridge University Press:
"The warming trends in the Arctic have been widely documented and seem to have found rather unison acceptance among climate scientists. Secondary effects of this trend are reflected in the political developments in the region, albeit with differences in interpretation as to which path political developments will tread: conflict or cooperation? It is thus a matter of ‘security’ in the region which must be related to climate change. And this is what The Fast-changing Arctic – rethinking Arctic security for a warmer world tries to achieve. The book is subdivided into four sections, ‘Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities’, ‘Cooperation and conflict: paths forward’, ‘Regional perspectives’, and ‘Concluding observations’. ... there are several contributions in this volume which justify the ‘rethinking’-element of the book. ... It is thus to conclude that The Fast-changing Arctic provides many new perspectives on a traditional understanding of Arctic security with a dominant state-centred, North American focus."
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• John D. Jacobs, Honorary Research Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Journal of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (May 2014):
"The Fast-Changing Arctic is more about the geopolitics of the Arctic than the rapidly evolving environmental changes taking place there. However, anyone who does research in the Arctic must be sensitive to the politics at some level and will be interested in policy matters that can be informed by science and ultimately will affect the future state of the Arctic environment. This book is a collection of 16 substantive chapters arranged under the headings Arctic climate change: strategic challenges and opportunities, Cooperation and conflict: paths forward, Regional perspectives, and Concluding remarks. The 17 authors encompass a range of relevant experience and expertise, and include academics, military and diplomatic professionals, and journalists. None appear to be from indigenous Arctic communities, although several of the chapters deal with emerging indigenous governance and power-sharing issues, particularly in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. There are extensive notes and references, numerous maps and other figures, a comprehensive index, and information about the contributing authors. Most of the chapters have appeared previously as articles in foreign policy and international law journals dating between 2009 and 2011, but they provide good background to things to come. Arctic warming and associated diminishing sea ice and other physical and ecological effects are sketched in several chapters, with reference to model projections for future change. That the decline in seasonal sea-ice extent has outpaced most model projections is noted and becomes a source of some urgency, as in Alun Anderson’s statement, “action to look after the Arctic must accelerate too.” ....The Fast-Changing Arctic is a comprehensive treatment of current Arctic policy issues by authors with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. While the book lacks some of the continuity of a focused work by a single author, the editor has succeeded in organizing the various contributions into a coherent whole. This book joins a growing literature on politics, resource development, and environmental issues in the Arctic, and should be of interest to anyone who has an interest in the future of the region."
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• Miloš Barták, "Review of The fast-changing Arctic. Rethinking Arctic security for a warmer world, Barry Scott Zellen (ed.)," Czech Polar Reports: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4, No. 1 (2014), Masaryk University, Brno.
"A general feature of the book is that it brings a pragmatic view on the consequences of the global warming of the atmosphere, and the sea ice decline in the northern hemisphere in particular. In contrast to many books on the market that focus on recent climatological and environmental changes happening in the Arctic ocean, The fast-changing Arctic overviews the aspects of ongoing transformation of the Arctic with main emphasis given to tourism impact, increased availability of mineral sources, fishing industry, human habitation, economic, military, and defense consequences. Among the many topics presented in the book, the likely effects of increased shipping through the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route are brought into focus. The book is not a typical scientific study; it is rather a platform for several professionals and academicians who comment on history and possible future scenarios of environment, geopolitical and security issues in the Arctic. ... As regards security in the Arctic region, the majority of the co-authors stress the importance of dialogue and collaboration between countries involved in ship transportation in coastal Arctic seas that are expected to be more open in future. In one of the concluding chapters, L. W. Brigham concludes that "The Arctic will become a shipping superhighway," which again supports the idea of co-operation and a necessity for coordination of the exploitation of traffic routes in Arctic seas. The book can be recommended to professionals in the field of international relations, geodemography, strategic studies, and members of international organizations that have Arctic issues in their scope."
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Culture, Conflict and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, 2014):
• Ohio State Professor Peter Mansoor's Review of Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency in the July 2014 edition of H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41583:
"Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency is a collaborative effort by ten scholars and military practitioners to explain the criticality of cultural knowledge and awareness in the messy small wars of the twenty-first century, in particular the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. The product of a two-year study sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California, this volume seeks to clarify the importance of cultural understanding to national security and foreign policy, the theory underpinning cultural analysis, practical difficulties involved in data collection and analysis, and how cultural issues have impacted recent military adventures in the Middle East and South Asia. Contributors include cultural and social anthropologists, historians, and military officers with both academic and field experience in anthropology and counterinsurgency warfare. The editors conclude that culture matters a great deal in conflict, and the United States and its allies can either make the effort to understand its impact on warfare or suffer the unhappy consequences of their ignorance. They optimistically conclude that Afghanistan can still turn out successful for the United States and its Afghan allies provided they undertake a “significant course change reflecting cultural nuances” (p. 3). Although this assessment may be overly optimistic given the impending departure of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan, this book is highly recommended for scholars, military practitioners, and government officials involved in studying or crafting policies concerning irregular warfare in the twenty-first century. The volume is divided into two general sections, the first focusing on theory and methodology and the second on practice in the context of the war in Afghanistan. The first section will appeal primarily to scholars, although Alexei Gavriel’s chapter on the creation and use of cultural and ethnographic intelligence by military forces will spark both interest among military intelligence professionals and no doubt a great deal of angst among sociologists and anthropologists. The discussion of culture and the war in Afghanistan in the second part of the book will be of more interest to the generally informed reader. ... The editors conclude, “In the history of recent counterinsurgency efforts, the impact of cultural understanding on military operations cannot be underestimated” (p. 252). Perhaps the impact cannot be underestimated, but it can be ignored. There are a number of military officers and self-appointed counterinsurgency pundits who are trying to do just that in their quest to return the focus of the U.S. military to fighting state-on-state wars. As U.S. forces withdraw from the conflicts spawned by the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, Americans and their military leaders seem united by a common desire to forgo any more of these messy, troop-intensive counterinsurgency conflicts. Unfortunately, in our haste to forget the history of the past decade-plus of warfare in the Middle East and South Asia, we may also jettison the very lessons—among them the importance of culture in determining the outcome of these conflicts—that may help future generations avoid the pitfalls that plagued too many U.S.-led military operations in the past. The editors and contributors to this volume make a convincing case that culture matters a great deal in the outcome of insurgencies and counterinsurgency warfare. Although this book has probably come too late to change the outcome of the conflict in Afghanistan, perhaps it is timely enough to educate the next generation of military leaders, who most certainly will see this type of war again."
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In the Literature: Scholarly Citations:
2015
• Adam Stepien, Timo Koivurova, and Paula Kankaanpaa, The Changing Arctic and the European Union. Martinus Nijhoff, Nihoff Law Specials No. 89 (October 15, 2015).
• Terry Fenge and Jim Aldridge, eds., Keeping Promises: The Royal Proclamation of 1763, Aboriginal Rights, and Treaties in Canada. McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series, Book 78 (Mcgill-Queens University Press, 2015).
• Patricia Owens, Economy of Force: Counterinsurgency and the Historical Rise of the Social. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2016: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2015).
• Frank Sejersen, Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change: New Northern Horizons (The Earthscan Science in Society Series, 2015).
• Philip E. Steinberg, Jeremy Tasch, Hannes Gerhardt, Contesting the Arctic: Rethinking Politics in the Circumpolar North(I.B.Tauris, 2015).
• Justiina Dahl. "Assessments, models and international politics of the Arctic: why the “New North” narrative includes only bomber, polar bear, oil, and gas deposit models, and no original parts or an assembly manual." The Polar Journal 5, no. 1 (2015): 35-58.
• Marc James Leger. "From Climate Crisis to Climate Movement: A Conversation with Robert Van Waarden." Afterimage 42, no. 4 (2015): 4.
• Olle Sundström, "Review of Takashi Irimoto, The Ainu Bear Festival, Sapporo: Hokkaido University Press 2014." Journal of Northern Studies 9, no. 1 (2015): 133-136.
• Martin Björk, Geopolitisk dynamik: Ett teoriutvecklande anspråk (Geopolitical dynamics: A theoretical claim), Swedish National Defence College, Department of Security and Strategic Studies (ISS). (Swedish). Independent thesis, advanced level, http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:824042/FULLTEXT01.pdf (June 4, 2015)
• Ethem Ilbiz and Benjamin L. Curtis. "Trendsetters, Trend Followers, and Individual Players: Obtaining Global Counterterror Actor Types from Proscribed Terror Lists." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 38, no. 1 (2015): 39-61.
• Katarzyna Zysk and David Titley. "Signals, Noise, and Swans in Today's Arctic." SAIS Review of International Affairs 35, no. 1 (2015): 169-181.
• Jillian Terry, "Feminist Ethics and War: Conceptualising Care in Post-9/11 Counterinsurgency," Department of International Relations, London School of Economics. Paper presented at the 4th European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG), University of Uppsala, Sweden (11-13 June, 2015) citing Johnson and Zellen, eds, Culture, Conflict and Counter-insurgency.
• Marlene Laruelle, Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North, Routledge, 2015.
• Andrew J. Goodpaster, "Brief Notices." Survival 57.2 (2015): e1-11.
2014
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2015: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2014).
• Calvince Omondi Barack, "The Terrorist Group’s Selection of Targets and Their Motivation: The case of Al Qaeda," Master's thesis, December 13, 2014.
• Colin S. Gray, Strategy & Defence Planning: Meeting the challenge of uncertainty, Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Nordic Council of Ministers, Marine invasive species in the Arctic, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2014.
• Øyvind Østerud and Geir Hønneland, "Geopolitics and International Governance in the Arctic," Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Volume 5, No. 2 (2014), 156–176.
• Mia M. Bennett, "North by Northeast: toward an Asian-Arctic region," Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol 55, No. 1 (August 2014), 71-93.
• Emma Barry-Pheby, "Examining the Priorities of the Canadian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Current Obstacles in International Law, Policy, and Governance," Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review, 25 (Summer 2014): 259-419.
• Andrea Beck, "China’s strategy in the Arctic: a case of lawfare?" The Polar Journal 4.2 (2014): 306-318.
• Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, "The seven-decade quest to maximize Canada’s continental shelf," International Journal, July 18, 2014.
• Pauline Wakeham, "At the Intersection of Apology and Sovereignty: The Arctic Exile Monument Project," Cultural Critique, No. 87 (Spring 2014), 84-143.
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean" in Anderson, Jon & Peters, Kimberley, Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (Ashgate, 2014), 23-37.
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Maintaining Hegemony at a Distance: The U.S. Arctic Region Policy Presidential Directive of 2009" in Powell, Richard & Dodds, Klaus, Polar Geopolitics? Knowledge, Resources and Legal Regimes (Edward Elgar, 2014), 113-130.
• Waliul Hasanat, "Searching for Synergies in International Governance Systems Developed in the Circumpolar North,"McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Policy, Special Issue on Polar Law Vol. 9, Issue 2 (2014), 5-41.
• Hong, Nong. "Emerging interests of non-Arctic countries in the Arctic: a Chinese perspective." The Polar Journal 4.2 (2014): 271-286.
• Glenn Hastedt, Donna L. Lybecker, Vaughn P. Shannon, Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation, CQ Press (March 1, 2014)
• Philip E. Steinberg, "Steering Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Northwest Passage as Territorial Sea," Ocean Development & International Law, Volume 45, Issue 1, 2014 (January 2014), 84-106.
• Richard C. Powell and Klaus Dodds, eds., Polar Geopolitics? Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes (Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 2014).
• Nicol, Heather. "Nunavut, Sovereignty, and the Future for Arctic Peoples’ Involvement in Regional Self-Determination." Northern Review 37 (2014).
2013
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2014: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2013).
• Irina Zhilina, Security Outlook of the Arctic States and Perspectives on NATO’s Involvement, University of Akureyri, Master’s Programme in Polar Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Department of Law, University of Akureyri, September 2013.
• Hew Strachan, The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Arabinda Acharya, Ten Years After 9/11 - Rethinking the Jihadist Threat. Routledge, 2013.
• Margrét Cela, "Iceland: A Small Arctic State Facing Big Arctic Changes," The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2013), 75–92.
• James Manicom, "Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation?,"Geopolitics, Volume 18, Issue 1, 2013.
• Kristian Åtland, "The Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic Ocean," Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security 2013, 205-216.
• Klaus Dodds, "The Ilulissat Declaration (2008): The Arctic States, 'Law of the Sea,' and Arctic Ocean," SAIS Review of International Affairs, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer-Fall 2013, 45-55.
• Heather R. Schimmelpfennig, "After the Disaster: Business Continuity," ANSI (publicaa.ansi.org), July 2013.
• Institute of the North, "New Book Released - The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World," July 12, 2013, http://www.institutenorth.org/news/entry/new-book-released.
• Sean A. Stein, "The Submarine -- The Key to Winning an Arctic Conflict," Research paper, Naval War College, May 15, 2013.
• Daniel W. Gray, "Changing Arctic: A Strategic Analysis of United States Arctic Policy and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," Master's thesis, National Defense University, May 2013.
• Tereza Horejsova and Cody Morris Paris. "Tourism and the challenge of Arctic governance." International Journal of Tourism Policy 5, no. 1 (May 2013): 113-127.
• Amy Lauren Lovecraft, "The human geography of Arctic sea ice: Introduction." Polar Geography 36, No. 1-2 (Apr 2013): 1-4.
• Frédéric Lasserre, Jérôme Le Roy, and Richard Garon. "Is there an arms race in the Arctic?" Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 14, no. 3 & 4 (March 2013).
• Lisa M. Hodgetts, "The rediscovery of HMS Investigator: Archaeology, sovereignty and the colonial legacy in Canada’s Arctic." Journal of Social Archaeology 13, no. 1 (February 2013): 80-100.
• James Manicom, "The domestic politics of disputed Arctic boundaries: the Canadian case." Polar Record (Feb 2013), 1-11.
• Olivia, Mancuso, "Arctic meltdown: A problematic property rights structure translates into poor resource management."Studies by Undergraduate Researchers at Guelph 6, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 5-13.
• Jakob Steiner, Hijacked Drones, The Tuqay: Essays from Beyond the Well-Protected Domains, January 28, 2013.
• Kristian Åtland, The Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic Ocean, Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean (Springer: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security), 2013, 205-216.
2012
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2013: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2012).
• Fiammetta Borgia and Paolo Vargiu, The Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic: Between the Right to Self-Determination and a New Concept of Sovereignty?, The Yearbook of Polar Law Online, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012, Volume 4, Issue 1, 189-204.
• Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hohler, Patrick Kupper, Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective. Berghahn Books 2012.
• Sao Noan Oo, The Shan’s fight for their Rights and Lost Homeland, Burma Digest / Shan Herald, Dec 24, 2012.
• Ana-Maria GHIMIȘ, The Arctic Region: From a frozen desert towards a hot geopolitical region, Center for European Policy Evaluation, December 10, 2012.
• Nadine C. Fabbi, "Inuit Political Engagement in the Arctic." Arctic Yearbook 2012 (November 2012): 161.
• Nikolai Vakhtin, "European University at St. Petersburg: New Program on Arctic/Siberian Studies." Sibirica 11, no. 3 (Winter 2012): 56-70.
• James Manicom, "Identity Politics and the Russia-Canada Continental Shelf Dispute: An Impediment to Cooperation?"Geopolitics, Fall 2012.
• Jeppe Strandsbjerg, "Cartopolitics, Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Arctic." Geopolitics 17, no. 4 (October 2012): 818-842.
• Peter Johnston, "Arctic Energy Resources: Security and Environmental Implications." Journal of Strategic Security 5, no. 3 (September 2012): 5.
• Alain Faure, ed. "What holds the Arctic together?" L'Harmattan, September 2012.
• Andrew Chater, A New Tipping Point: The Government of Canada, Northern Residents and Climate Change, A Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Edmonton, Alberta, June 15, 2012,http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2012/Chater.pdf.
• Chiara Rogate and Marco Ferrara, "Climate Change and Power Shifts in the Arctic Region," Bologna Center Journal of International Affairs 15 (Spring 2012), Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University.
• Siri E. Linz, Procedural Implications of the March 2011 Solicitor's Memorandum: Repatriation in Alaska, Master's Thesis, University of Washington, Spring 2012.
• Daniel Pomerants, "The Beaufort Sea Maritime Boundary Dispute: High Stakes for Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Resource Extraction in a Changing Climate." PhD diss., York University, Spring 2012.
• Charles Officer and Jake Page. Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Anders Frandsen, "Arktis: Fredelig udvikling eller militær konflikt?" Copenhagen Business School, June 1, 2012.
• Steve Dobransky, "Military Security, Energy Resources, and the Emergence of the Northwest Passage: Canada’s Arctic Dilemma," American Diplomacy, June 2012, http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/item/2012/0106/ca/dobransky_arctic.html.
• Rob Huebert, Heather Exner-Pirot, Adam Lajeunesse, and Jay Gulledge, Climate Change & International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether, Arlington, VA: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), May 2012.
• Aleksei Fenenko, "Russia and the Competition for the Redivision of Polar Spaces," Russian Politics and Law 50, No. 2 (March-April 2012), 7-33.
• Gavin Kentch, "Comment: A Corporate Culture? The Environmental Justice Challenges of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act," Mississippi Law Journal 81 (March 2012), 813.
• Byron Ruby, "Conflict or Cooperation? Arctic Geopolitics and Climate Change," Berkeley Undergraduate Journal 25, No. 1 (January 2012).
• Nong Hong, "The Energy Factor in the Arctic Dispute: A Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation?" The Journal of World Energy Law & Business, January 2012.
• Personenlexikon Internationale Beziehungen Virtuell (PIBv), January 2012: "Bernard Brodie, Sekundärliteratur."
• Charles M. Perry and Bobby Andersen, New Strategic Dynamics in the Arctic Region: Implications for National Security and International Collaboration, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
• Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Hohler, Patrick Kupper, eds., Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective,
Volume 1 of Environment in History: International Perspectives, Berghahn Books, 2012.
2011
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2012: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2011).
• Irina Valko, "Cold Waters, Hot Stakes: Systemic Geostrategic Analysis of International Relations in the Arctic Transborder Region," Master's Thesis, Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, 2011.
• James Manicom, "Maritime Boundary Disputes in East Asia: Lessons for the Arctic," International Studies Perspectives 12, No. 3 (August 2011), 327–340.
• Kristian Åtland, "Russia's Armed Forces and the Arctic: All Quiet on the Northern Front?" Contemporary Security Policy 32, No. 2 (August 2011), 267-285.
• Ted L. McDormana, "From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief," Ocean Development & International Law 42, No. 3 (August 2011), 280-287.
• Alexei Fenenko, "ROSSIIa I SOPERNIChESTVO ZA PEREDEL PRIPOLIaRNYKh PROSTRANSTV (РОССИЯ И СОПЕРНИЧЕСТВО ЗА ПЕРЕДЕЛ ПРИПОЛЯРНЫХ ПРОСТРАНСТВ)," Mirovaia e'konomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, No. 4 (April 2011), 16-29.
• "The Jomini of Non-Violence," Rethinking Security, February 22, 2011.
• "Sharp as a Modern Jomini," Small Wars Journal, February 17, 2011.
2010
• Jack Burkhart, Entrepreneur Planner 2011: With 365 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs (CordaNobelo, 2010).
• Ross Coen, “If One Should Come Your Way, Shoot It Down”: The Alaska Territorial Guard and the Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack of World War II, Alaska History, Volume 25, No. 2, Fall 2010, 1-19.
• Conrad Schetter, "Ungoverned territories" – Eine konzeptuelle Innovation im "War on Terror," Geographica Helvetica Jg. 65 2010/Heft 3, 181-188.
• Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Structural, Environmental, and Political Conditions for Security Policy in the High North Atlantic: The Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, Strategic Insights, Volume 9, No. 12 (December 2010), 26-52.
• Heather N. Nicol, Canadian Arctic Security and Climate Change: Where Does Traditional Security Fit? Arctic 2010: Conference International Sur L'Arctique, Enjeux et équations géopolitiques au 21ème siècle, Lyon, 22-23 November 2010,http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/53/76/45/HTML/index.html.
• Paul Arthur Berkman, Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean: Promoting Co-operation and Preventing Conflict, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Whitehall Paper, 30 September 2010, http://www.rusi.org/publications/whitehall/• Henrik Jørgensen, Babysteps-Developing Multilateral Institutions in the Arctic, Center for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, September 2010.
• Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Climate Change, Independence and Microstate Security Policy: The Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland, APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, September 2010
• Stephen M. Sachs, "Upcoming Events," Indigenous Policy Journal, July 2010, http://02b7adb.netsolhost.com/ipjblog/post/Upcoming-Events.aspx.
• Kristian Åtland, Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic, The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) Report No 01097, 18 May 2010, http://rapporter.ffi.no/rapporter/2010/01097.pdf.
• Paul Cornish, Arms control tomorrow: the challenge of nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, Chapter 12, in Robin Niblett, ed., America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership (Wiley-Blackwell, May 2010).
• Christian Webersik, Climate Change and Security: A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges (Praeger, May 2010).
• Daryl Robbin, Arctic Defense Concerns: The Need to Reorganize United States Defense Structure to Meet Threats in a Changing Arctic Region, Joint Military Operations Department, Naval War College, Report No. A771525, 3 May 2010
• Mira Burria, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, "Digital Technologies and Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Positive Look at a Difficult Relationship," International Journal of Cultural Property 17, No. 1 (April 2010): 33-63.
• Harry Borlase, "Consistencies and Inconsistencies in the National Strategies of the Arctic Littoral States," University of Akureyri, Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Master’s Program in Polar Law, March 2010.
• Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas & McIntyre, 2010).
• Valerie Alia, The New Media Nation: Indigenous peoples and global communication (Berghahn Books, 2010).
• Martin Edwin Andersen, Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy & the Indigenous Challenge in "Latin" America, Lexington Books, 2010.
• Mira Burri-Nenova, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, Digital Technologies and Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Positive Look at a Difficult Relationship, International Journal of Cultural Property 17, No. 1 (2010), 1-31. • Roger G. Barry, Distinguished Professor of Geography Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom. The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic, Journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 42, No. 1 (February 2010).
• Stig Nøra, "Kina vil ha sin del av Nordområdene: Kina blir stadig mer aktive i nordområdene. Raskere transportruter til europeiske og amerikanske markeder, store olje- og gass-ressurser og kunnskapsbehov om klima-endringene gjør Arktis attraktiv for en fremvoksende stormakt som Kina," Dagens Perspektic, January 10, 2010.
• Peter F. Johnson, Arctic Energy Resources and Global Energy Security, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No. 2 (2010).
2009
• Arabinda Acharya, Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes (Contemporary Terrorism Studies), Routledge, 2009.
• Amy Fletcher, A look back at 2009 releases, Juneau Empire, December 10, 2009.
• James Manicom, “Climate Change, Extended Continental Shelf Claims and Maritime Territorial Disputes in the High Arctic,” ISSS-ISAC Conference 2009, Insecurity and Durable Disorder: Challenges to the State in an Age of Anxiety, October 19, 2009.
• Melissa Bert, Captain, USCG, John Chaddic, FBI, and Brian D. Perry, Colonel, USA, The Arctic in Transition: A Call to Action, Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, October, 2009.
• J. S. Onésimo Sandoval and Gloria Ortiz, Toward a U.S. Analytic Latino Concept, Journal of Latino-Latin America Studies3, No. 3 (2009).
• John Donihee, Land Claim Agreements and the North to 2030, Session No. 3 Conference Pager, 2030 North National Planning Conference, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, June 1, 2009.
• Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty, Arctic Sovereignty and Governance, Winter 2008/2009, Canadian Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.
2008
• Frank R. Spellman, Food Supply Protection and Homeland Security, Government Institutes, 2008, 40.
• Kevin Howe, Panel Looks at Ramifications of Arctic Meltdown, Monterey Herald, December 10, 2008.
• L. Anne Enke, Accusations of Obama 'Climate Shame' & 'New Holocaust' End, Anne of Carversville, December 18, 2009
John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher, Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives, Texas Tech University, December 2008.
• Mira Burri-nenova and Christoph Beat Graber, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
• Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri-Nenova, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008.
• Matthew Padilla, Preparing for the Unknown: The Threat of Agroterrorism, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Journal9, No. 1 (Fall 2008).
• Mira Burri-Nenova, The Long Tail of the Rainbow Serpent: New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, November 25, 2008.
• Christopher A. Shaw, Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games, New Society Publishers, 2008.
2007
• Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation Theory, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007.
• Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini, Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
• Karen Guttieri, Jessica Piombo, Interim governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007.
• Ritva Levo-Henriksson, Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication (Indigenous Peoples and Politics), Routledge, 2007.
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Working Papers 41, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore October 16, 2007.
• The National Security Implications of Climate Change, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, September 27, 2007.
• Mark A. Smith and Keith Giles, "Russia and the Arctic: 'The Last Dash North," Shrivenham, UK: Defence Academy of the UK, Advanced Research and Assessment Group, Russan Series 7, no. 26 (September 2007).
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces 33, No. 3 (2007).
2000-2006
• Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2007.
• Philip Joseph, American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
LTC Trent A. Pickering, USAF, A Nuclear Dilemma: Korean War Déjà vu, Master's Thesis, US Army War College, March 2006.
• Ryan Petersen, Be Our Guest, but Please Don't Stay: A Comparison of US and German Immigration, Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 14, No. 1 (2006-07).
• Alvin Benn, Producers Urged to Remain Vigilant: Government and Industry Focus on Agriterrorism, Alabama Farmers Co-op Cooperative Farming News, September 2005.
• David O. Meteyer, The Art of Peace: Dissuading China from Developing Counter Space Weapons, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005.
• Christian Enemark, Disease Security in Northeast Asia: Biological Weapons and Natural Plagues, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2004.
• Wade L. Huntley, Unthinking the Unthinkable: US Nuclear Policy and Asymmetric Threats, Strategic Insights III, Issue 2 (February 2004).
• Frederick J. Moll, The Legal & Technological Advantages of a North American Perimeter In the War Against Terrorism,Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter 2 (Spring 2004).
• Neil Blair Christensen, Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003.
• Dean C. Alexander, Business Confronts Terrorism: Risks and Responses, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
• Dave McComb, Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
• Michael J. Mazarr, Information Technology and World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Maximilian C. Forte, Adelaide University (Australia), We are not Extinct: Caribbean Indigeneity and the Internet, Sincronía, Spring 2002, sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/CyberIndigen.htm.
• Andrew E. Lieberman, Bringing Mayan Language and Culture Across the Digital Divide,” Academy for Educational Development, Profiles in Developmenty, TechKnowLogia, July-September 2002.
• Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, MIT Press, 2000.
• Valerie Alia, Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People, University of British Columbia Press, 2000.
1990-1999
• Magdalena A.K. Muir, Analysis of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and marine protected areas under the Oceans Act, Report Prepared for the FJMC, International Energy, Environmental and Legal Services Ltd, Calgary, 1997.
• Joël Demay, The Persistence and Creativity of Canadian Aboriginal Newspapers, Canadian Journal of Communication 18, No 1 (1993).
• Joël Demay, Clarifying Ambiguities: The Rapidly Changing Life of the Canadian Aboriginal Print Media, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XI, 1 (1991): 95-112.
Undated
• Wikipedia entries on: "Provinces and territories of Canada," citing Barry Scott Zellen (2009), On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State, and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty; "Military history of Canada," citing Barry Scott Zellen (2009), On thin ice: the Inuit, the state, and the challenge of Arctic Sovereignty; "Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary," citing Zellen, Barry Scott (2008), Breaking the ice: from land claims to tribal sovereignty; "2008 Tibetan unrest," citing Zellen, Barry, Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front, Strategic Insights, Volume VII, Issue April 2, 2008, Monterey: Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC); and "Broken-Backed War Theory," citing Zellen, Barry Scott (December 2011). State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, The Bomb, and the Birth of Bipolar World.
• Andrew E. Lieberman, "Taking Ownership: Strengthening Indigenous Cultures and Languages," LearnLink, Academy for Educational Development, Undated.
In the News: Media Mentions:
- Project on Climate and Conflict, Arctic Update, The US Arctic Research Commission Daily Email Newsletter, October 17, 2011
- Bare New World: Melting Ice Spurs a Land Grab in the Unfrozen North (GRAPPLE | With Issues and Ideas), by Juliana Hanle, in Sierra Magazine, Sept/Oct 2011 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Guerra do Ártico, by Marcelo Tanami, Tincuetchento.com, August 30, 2011 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- We Must Use Our Arctic Resources Wisely, by Wally Hickel, in Anchorage Daily News, February 13, 2010 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Warships Alone Won't Solve This Problem, by Mike Peters, in China Daily, January 23, 2010 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Interview with On Thin Ice author Barry Zellen on the John Batchelor Show, WABC News Radio, January 23, 2010 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Kina Vil Ha Sin Del Av Nordomradene, by Stig Nora, in Mandag Morgen (Monday Morning), January 11, 2010 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Is Doom Ahead, or Opportunity, in China Daily, December 2, 2009 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Pirates of the Arctic?, by Mike Peters, in First Alaskans, April/May 2009 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- NPS Hosts Conference on Impact of Climate Change on Arctic Region, Inside the Navy, December 15, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Panel Looks at Ramifications of Arctic Meltdown," Monterey Herald, December 10, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Climate Change Could Warm Arctic Economy, by Mike Peters, in The Arctic Sounder, October 16, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Breaking the Ice provides example for other cultures, by Kaitlynn Jackson, The Northern Light, October 14, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Looking for a Tropical Vacation? Try the Arctic Sea, Interview on the Patt Morrison Show, KPCC 89.3, Long Beach, CA, July 2, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Wayland Resident Shares Stories of the Arctic, by Amelia Andrade, The Town Crier, May 1, 2008. (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- It's The End of the World as We Know It, by James Hrynyshyn, Island of Doubt, April 30, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- Geopolitics of Arctic Climate Change, Interviewed on The World Today, CKNW Radio, AM 980, Vancouver, BC, April 29, 2008 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
- The Meltdown by Paul Abelsky, Russia Profile, June 5, 2007 (featuring Barry S. Zellen)
