CIAO DATE: 12/2013
December 2013
Centre for International Governance Innovation
This paper concerns the US view of East Asian nations’ involvement in the Arctic, emphasizing the perspective of Alaska, the only US Arctic state. It treats six different areas of US/Alaska policy: US national strategy for the Arctic; oil and gas exploration and development; marine transportation; fisheries; investment in infrastructure; and governance. The study finds few differences between the positions of Alaska and the United States, notwithstanding often-hostile rhetoric from leaders in the United States’ farthest north frontier.
Resource link: East Asia and the Arctic: Alaskan and American Perspectives [PDF] - 941K