Scramble for the Poles

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.Mark Nuttall is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

• PrefaceList of Figures and MapsChapter 1: Scrambling for the ExtraordinaryChapter 2: Making and Remaking the Polar RegionsChapter 3: Under Ice and SnowChapter 4: Governing the Arctic and AntarcticChapter 5: New Resource FrontiersChapter 6: Opening up the PolesChapter 7: Polar Demands and Demanding Polar RegionsNotesReferences

"A rich historical, geopolitical and social anthropoligical account of soverign space-making practices." International Affairs"Leading polar scholars Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall reveal the nuances in the scramble for the poles, as they are unveiled by the potent combination of climate change and enabling technologies in a context of resource pursuit and the changing global order. Polar security in the broadest sense, depends on constraining this scramble over coming decades."Alan D. Hemmings, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury"This powerful book details the myriad contrasts and connections between the contemporary Polar Regions. Using the metaphor of scrambles, Dodds and Nuttall provide a major, comparative statement for the future social and political study of the poles."Richard Powell, University of Oxford"A thought-provoking book."Polar Record