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Kenneth R. Rosen has spent a great deal of time above the Arctic Circle, and his new book POLAR WAR covers the great-game politics of territory that may not be covered in floating ice or permafrost in the foreseeable future. We talk about the reasons Trump wants Greenland; the moment in 2007 when Russia claimed the watery North Pole by planting an unusual flag; and the ways in which China may or may not be a “near-Arctic state.”
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Resources:
Polar War, by Kenneth R. Rosen
Ken’s other books, including Bulletproof Vest, about the Iraq War
Some Thoughts on the Purchase of Greenland, an essay by Mike from last February, somehow still relevant
North to the Future, a Radio Free Mike interview on the Alaskan Arctic with Ben Weissenbach
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