Kenneth R. Rosen Polar WarSubmarines, spies, and the struggle forpower in a melting Arctic320pp. Profile. £22. The Norwegian government once invited me on a guided tour of the country’s far north, inc

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

China is expanding its High North knowledge by paying to join Russian scientific expeditions, further fueling the West’s concerns about potential military use of research

KENNETH R. ROSEN

GREENLAND IS NOT SEEKING TO BE BOUGHT. NOR IS IT LOOKING TO BE RESCUED. IT IS SEEKING DIGNITY, COOPERATION AND RESPECT.

EVEN THE CANADIANS ARE DRAWING up plans for how they might respond to a U.S. invasion. That’s how spooked global leaders are right now about an unhinged flare of contempt from their typically allied c