U.S. Arctic security policy : North American Arctic strategies, Russian hubris and Chinese ambitions

Zusammenfassung: Unlike his predecessors, US President Joe Biden made important decisions early in his term to enable better coordination of US Arctic policy. This includes foremost the National Strategy for the Arctic Region that was published later than planned as a result of Russia’s war of aggression, which destroyed the few remaining hopes for cooperation and made the Arctic a security policy issue. Alaska, as the northernmost American state, is naturally at the centre of US Arctic policy, which increasingly also must take Chinese activities into consideration. Most recently, in September 2022, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) detected Chinese and Russian warships off Alaska. Currently, only one US icebreaker is continuously available in the Arctic theatre with the mis­sion to protect sovereignty in the Arctic Ocean and monitor ice-covered areas. Alaska is also the very same US state that the recent Chinese spy balloon flew over, which was eventually shot down in February 2023. After decades of scant attention, is the Arctic now finally becoming the object of a more engaged US security policy?

Weitere Titel
Die arktische Sicherheitspolitik der USA
Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
1 Online-Ressource (8 Seiten)
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
"English version of SWP-Aktuell 26/2023"
Gesehen am 19.07.2023

Erschienen in
SWP comment ; 2023, no. 40 (July 2023)
SWP comment ; 2023, no. 40 (July 2023)

Klassifikation
Politik
Schlagwort
Sicherheitspolitik
Konzeption
Strategie
Politisches Interesse
Interessenkonflikt
Internationale Organisation
USA
Arktis
Russland
China

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Berlin
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SWP
(wann)
[July 2023]
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Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen

DOI
10.18449/2023C40
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023092614243350849267
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