Klaus Dodds: Scramble for the Poles? Geopolitics of the Arctic & Antarctic

*Original Air Date: January 10, 2019

Professor of geopolitics Klaus Dodds explains the 'Scramble for the Poles' and how elements of stagecraft and triumphant geopolitics are used by countries such as Canada, China, and Russia to gain currency in order to better assert themselves in the Arctic and Antarctic. He explains the legal regimes that govern the regions, the Cold War military history, and what the future holds for one of the last frontiers.

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Show Notes
In 30 years the Antarctic Treaty becomes modifiable, and the fate of a continent could hang in the balance https://theconversation.com/in-30-years-the-antarctic-treaty-becomes-modifiable-and-the-fate-of-a-continent-could-hang-in-the-balance-98654
Triumphant geopolitics? Making space of and for Arctic geopolitics in the Arctic Ocean https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/triumphant-geopolitics-making-space-of-and-for-arctic-geopolitics-in-the-arctic-ocean(71b6e049-147b-4b33-8234-7291e58f7702).html

It's time to draw borders on the Arctic Ocean (Vox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_2SVm9Jgo
Putin's Arctic ambitions (Caspian Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbrKLnh8wLA
Geopolitics of the Arctic (Caspian Report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV67yJHoPvw
The Geopolitics of the Arctic (CFR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2SAExt6nI
China Wants to Govern the Arctic (China Uncensored)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeQl4earvA

Websites
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/klaus-dodds(fb99b223-7661-4aa1-95f6-1cd527dd0fc7).html
https://twitter.com/klausdodds

Publications
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Klaus+Dodds&search-alias=books&field-author=Klaus+Dodds&sort=relevancerank
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/klaus-dodds(fb99b223-7661-4aa1-95f6-1cd527dd0fc7)/publications.html

About the Guest
Professor Klaus Dodds researches in the areas of geopolitics and security, media/popular culture, ice studies and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic.

He has published many authored and edited books. His newest book is co-authored with Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2019).

In November 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and human geography. In academic year 2010-11, he was a visiting fellow at St Cross College, Oxford and HARC fellow at Royal Holloway. In October 2012, he was elected Academician (now Fellow) of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). In November 2016, he was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) for a project examining 'A new North? The making and remaking of the global Arctic'. In academic year 2017-18, he was a visiting fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

He was editor of The Geographical Journal between 2010-2015 and is currently editorial board member of Critical Studies on Security, Geopolitics, International Journal of James Bond Studies, Marine Policy, Political Geography and Polar Record. He is also co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Series (with Reece Jones of University of Hawai'i). In 2018, he was appointed deputy editor of Territory, Politics and Governance and will become editor in chief in 2019.

Klaus is a Council Member of the Canada-UK Council and a member of the UK Arctic Antarctic Partnership.

He has worked for the UK Parliament as specialist adviser to a House of Lords Select Committe on the Arctic and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee.

He is the Director of Research for the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and acts as REF 2021 lead.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)