Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures

Christian Leuprecht is Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Military Journal, director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen?s University, and adjunct research professor at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security.

Douglas Causey is is professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage, faculty affiliate of the Harvard Kennedy School?s Belfer Center Arctic Initiative, and global fellow of the Wilson Center?s Polar Institute. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist by training, he has authored over two hundred publications on the environmental correlates of Arctic climate change, and he and his students are actively conducting research in Alaska, Bering Sea, and Northwestern Greenland. He has published extensively on policy issues related to the Arctic environment, Arctic environmental security, and bioterrorism and public health.