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Professor Kristina Spohr’s cover article in the New Statesman “The race to conquer the Arctic – the world’s final frontier”

March 8, 2019

Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor Kristina Spohr’s article on Arctic politics was the cover story of the March 2018 edition of New Statesman magazine.

In the article, “The race to conquer the Arctic – the world’s final frontier,” Spohr calls for the West to pay greater attention to a region that’s strategic importance grows by the day as thawing ice opens up new shipping routes and opportunities for natural resource extraction.