Publication

This report contemplates the growing economic and geostrategic importance of Alaska and the Arctic to the US, and what a slow-to-react Washington might do to improve its presence in the Arctic region. In the latter case, the report recommends that Washington should 1) ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and thereby secure its rights to resources in the region; 2) fund and maintain polar ice-breaking vessels; 3) improve its Arctic infrastructure; 4) strengthen cooperation with other Arctic nations; 5) support sustainable development in the region and Alaska; and 6) sustain Arctic research funding.