Brandon Ray, former International Policy Institute Arctic Fellow (2016-18) is an author on a just-published paper in the American Review of Canadian Studies. The Model Arctic Council: Simulated negotiations as

I work as the program director with the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies in Homer, Alaska. While the center’s primary focus is on coastal ecology and stewardship education through field

In “ ‘Our Hemisphere:’ Understanding the US Campaign Against Socialism in Latin America” Daniel Bessner, Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy, argues that the U.S.

In “Seattle port could play key role in race to rule the Arctic,” Scott Montgomery, affiliate faculty and a geoscientist, discusses the U.S. commissioning a new ice breaker that may

How can we restore public confidence in foreign policy experts? That is the question that senior-level international affairs representatives from the U.S. Department of State, American University, University of Maryland,

Anthropogenic climate change has been at the forefront of the discussions in the Arctic Council since its creation. Noting that “the evidence of global warming is in no place more

Scientists discovered global climate change, identified its human origins, and are forecasting the consequences for every corner of the globe. There is overwhelming consensus about the facts underpinning our knowledge

The current climate change situation has caused optimism to wane, to say the least. Temperatures keep rising and the dreaded 1.5C mark seems all the closer as the days, weeks,

“…they agreed to work with me because it was the first time a researcher came to their community to ask them what their priorities are and to listen without prejudgements.”

Mary Andom, a graduate student in the M.A. in Applied International Studies program who also serves as a communications assistant at the Jackson School, writes about Jackson School doctoral candidate