The Future History of the Arctic
How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North and Why it Matters to the World
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Mar '11
Should be back in stock very soon
A vivid, visionary exploration of the Arctic, the forces that have shaped it, and its emergence onto the main stage of global affairs.
Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century. This title weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges.
Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: climate change, energy security and the struggle for the world's resources, the return of great power competition and the remaking of global trade patterns.
In The Future History of the Arctic, geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. Travelling from the oil-fields of Prudhoe Bay and the Russian port of Murmansk to the shores of Greenland and the militarised borderlands of northern Norway, he brings the contemporary Arctic to life and explains why what happens there matters to the world.
As reviving as a blast of polar air, bringing the Arctic into wonderfully clear focus; one of the most impressive accounts of the contemporary Arctic I've read -- Joanna Kavenna * Spectator *
An excellent primer to the economic issues of a region so recently and rudely thrust into the geopolitical limelight -- Sara Wheeler * Financial Times *
It's rare to find books that treat [the Arctic] as something other than a chilly adventure playground or an excuse for reams of purple prose. Thank goodness, then, for Charles Emmerson... Ruthlessly efficient * Scotland on Sunday *
A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid -- Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, author of A Blueprint for a Safter Planet
An expert on geopolitics, he writes with insight and authority * Independent on Sunday *
Explores and greatly extends the issues ... insightful analysis * Times Literary Supplement *
Commended for [its] crisp, easily digestible prose...clarity...avoidance of sentimentality or over-obsessive attention to detail -- Robin McKie * The Observer *
Required reading for anyone who wants to know more about this increasingly important region * Sunday Business Post *
This engrossing book will fascinate would-be explorers, foreign policy buffs and all those who care about our global environment. Charles Emmerson shows why the world's ice cap is where much of our world's future history will be written -- Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Former European Union Commissioner for External Affairs
Deeply insightful... His account is always clear-headed and elegant, weaving an extraordinary range of subjects into a compelling narrative -- Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
ISBN: 9780099523536
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 28mm
Weight: 357g
448 pages