Arctic Council Gets New Leader: what choice will Washington make?

... consolidate the results of previous years. In other words, it will try to minimize damage rather than build up cooperation. Robert Papp’s team will most likely have to use this time to upgrade Arctic issues on the U.S. foreign policy agenda and ... ... opportunity to assert itself as one of the key Arctic players. Thus as it takes on the chairmanship of the Arctic Council the USA will have to make a strategic choice. It can pursue a policy aimed at maintaining the Arctic’s status as a zone of cooperation,...