1. Contemporary Geopolitics of the Polar Regions SAMPLE SLIDES Klaus Dodds ‘Core’ Course

2. Frozen Planet Why do the Polar Regions matter? Environmental – links to ‘planet earth’ Resource potential – oil, gas, timber, minerals, fish Inhabited (human and non-human populations) Strategic/military – access, shipping lanes, air space Sovereignty and sovereign rights

3. Who owns the Arctic?

4. Cold War and Polar Regions Strategic spaces and geopolitics of proximity Arctic and Antarctic as ‘testing grounds’ Military, polar science and grand strategy Populating the Arctic – human security?

5. Submarines, surveying and spying

6. Frontier Nationalism Frontier discourses/practices Russia and the Arctic – Conquering Nature Australia and the Australian polar frontier Everyday geopolitics and polar nationalism/national security

7. An independent Greenland?

8. Polar Regions and Global Commons How does the international community address areas of the earth such as Antarctica and potentially the central Arctic Ocean? What role do property rights, international regimes, national security, technology and regional co-operation play in regulating the Antarctic and oceans? Can securitization help avoid the ‘tragedy of the commons’?

9. Some Key Readings K Dodds (2012) The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) K Dodds (2012) ‘Introduction – The governance of the global commons’ Global Policy 3: 58-60 J McCannon (2012) A History of the Arctic (University of Chicago Press) A Hemmings, D Rothwell and K Scott editors (2012) Antarctic Security in the 21 st Century (Routledge) C Emmerson (2010) The Future History of the Arctic (Bodley Head) F Griffiths, R Heubert and W Lackenbauer (2011) Canada and the Changing Arctic (Wilfred Laurier University Press)