{"id":221,"date":"2015-07-15T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticincontext.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2021-07-11T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T23:21:05","slug":"timeline-arctic-military-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/2015\/07\/15\/timeline-arctic-military-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline: Arctic Military Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Westerly Gorayeb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Arctic is often depicted as an isolated and remote area, defined by its harsh climate and ice-choked waters\u2014but the melting of the polar ice caps is creating new opportunities for trade and resource extraction. A more open and hospitable Arctic has also led to increased territorial claims and military presence by the eight countries that call the region home. The prospect of a conflict in the Arctic remains unlikely, as the Arctic Council, established in 1996, provides an integral means for cooperation, coordination, and interaction among Arctic states.<\/p>\n<p><em>World Policy Journal <\/em>examines the extent of military presence in the region, deployed as both a technique of surveillance and a means of protection, as a warming climate opens new paths. This timeline, adapted from the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldpolicy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Summer15_16-17_MapRoom.pdf\">Map Room: Arctic Militarization<\/a> feature that appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldpolicy.org\/journal\/summer2015\">Summer 2015<\/a> issue of<em> World Policy Journal<\/em>,\u00a0illustrates how rapid ice melt in recent years has prompted increased military activity in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on the World Policy Institute website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Westerly Gorayeb The Arctic is often depicted as an isolated and remote area, defined by its harsh climate and ice-choked waters\u2014but the melting of the polar ice caps is creating new opportunities for trade and resource extraction. A more open and hospitable Arctic has also led to increased territorial claims and military presence by<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/2015\/07\/15\/timeline-arctic-military-presence\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,14],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geopolitics","tag-security-and-defense"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/aic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}