Trump’s New Arctic Policy Has a Familiar Ring
By Rebecca Pincus assistant professor, US Naval War College Read bio
June 11, 2019
Administration officials are talking tough on Russia and China, while picking fights with allies that are making U.S. goals harder to achieve.
The Trump administration was slow to turn its attention to the Arctic region, a state of affairs that those in the narrow Arctic policy domain did not necessarily bemoan.
You could see it during Arctic conferences in 2017 and early 2018, when someone, usually a European, would ask an American, “Would you like to see the Trump administration more engaged on Arctic policy?†The answer was always hemming and hawing, and artful dodging. Given the politically charged issues that comprise the Arctic policy realm—climate change, relations with Russia and China, environmental issues, governmental relations with Indigenous peoples—many felt that a lack of political limelight helped preserve international cooperation and hard-won “Arctic exceptionalism.â€
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