Australia’s complacent, reactive posture towards the polar regions is no longer tenable. Canberra cannot continue treating the poles as peripheral scientific domains best managed through diplomacy. Strategic competition in the polar regions should be viewed …
The Antarctic Treaty is glorified as evidence of managing cooperation in a contested world. Forged in the Cold War, the treaty system has effectively held conflict at bay for almost seven decades. Geopolitics has been …
Antarctica rose to the surface of strategic competition this week. It appeared prominently in both the Australia–New Zealand Foreign and Defence Ministerial Consultations (ANZMIN) and in China’s new five-year plan. Antarctic affairs have long been …
The polar regions, long regarded as remote, frozen frontiers of science and exploration, are emerging as arenas of strategic competition and geopolitical tension. What happens at the ends of the Earth increasingly matters for global …
A record number of participants. An Arctic storm grounding planes. A program reshuffled at the last minute. From 22 to 24 October, participants flocked to the 2025 Polar Law Symposium in Nuuk, Greenland, not just …
