The Arctic as a Panacea for the EU
The active development of the system for Arctic policy since the beginning of the 2000s both on the national and international levels has greatly contributed to shaping the informal behavior of the many regional powers ...
... between any two nations in the world. And we have very little conflict along that boundary. We have very good cooperation between Russian border guards and the United States coast guards in terms of enforcement and search and rescue operations. And our fishery managers exchange data and information on a regular basis. That all works fairly well.
However, where we have a gap, in my view, is in the Arctic, in the area of the Northern Bering Sea and north into the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean. We’ve not had a reason until recent times to start thinking about how to cooperate, because of the ice there was little activity. Now that region ...