China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press). Adam Lajeunesse is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Arctic Marine Security Policy at St. Francis Xavier University. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Military, Strategic, and Security Studies and the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, and a fellow with the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Lajeunesse is a regular lecturer at the NATO Defence College (Rome) and the Canadian Forces College (Toronto), as well as a frequent speaker on northern security issues for academic, government, and military audiences. He is the author of Lock, Stock and Icebergs (UBC Press) - a history of Canada's Arctic maritime sovereignty. Frédéric Lasserre is a professor of Geography at Laval University, Directeur du Centre Québécois d'Ãtudes géopolitiques and a research associate at Groupe d'études et de recherche sur l'Asie contemporaine. James Manicom is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is the author of Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea (Georgetown University Press).

• illustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Situating the Arctic in China's Strategy2. The Snow Dragon: China, Polar Science, and the Environment3. Sovereignty and Shipping4. Arctic Resources and China's Rising Demand5. China and Arctic Governance: Uncertainty and Potential Friction6. The Way AheadNotesBibliographyIndexBiographies

"Although one can fairly wonder whether the authors are a trifle too rosyabout the reconcilability of Canadas and Chinas Arctic agendas, they haveproduced a solidly researched and thought-provoking volume". John McCannon, Pacific Affairs, Vol 91 No 4