Lawfare Archive: Fault Lines: Hot Topics in the Arctic
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
From February 24, 2020: What do Russia, China and Canada all have in common? They all disagree—in one manner or another—with American policy goals in the Arctic, where climate change is driving opportunities and challenges for U.S. policy-makers. In this episode, National Security Institute Visiting Fellow and former senior intelligence official Jim Danoy discusses his paper, “The Arctic: Securing the High Ground,” with host Lester Munson. They discuss the fascinating policy dilemmas posed by the unique geography of the North Pole and how the United States can exploit new opportunities to maximum benefit.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Avery Schmitz, intern at LawFair with an episode from the LawFair Archive from March |
| 0:45.8 | 18, 2023. |
| 0:48.5 | President Biden's approval of the Willow project, a controversial large-scale drilling |
| 0:53.1 | venture in Northern Alaska, has re-ignited scrutiny of federal policy in the Arctic. |
| 0:58.9 | Willow has been widely criticized by environmental activists and the circumstances surrounding |
| 1:03.7 | its approval shed light on the geopolitical complexities of U.S. policy in the high |
| 1:08.7 | north. |
| 1:09.7 | For today's Archive episode, I chose an interview from February 24, 2020. |
| 1:15.1 | In the episode, Lester Munson sat down with Jim DeNoy to discuss the extent to which climate |
| 1:21.2 | change mitigation efforts dictate American strategic policy in the Arctic. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm Lester Munson, a senior fellow at NSI and the former staff director of the Senate |
| 1:39.2 | Foreign Relations Committee. |
| 1:40.7 | And today we'll be doing a deep dive with NSI visiting fellow and defense intelligence |
| 1:45.7 | executive Jim DeNoy. |
| 1:48.3 | Jim is a career intelligence officer with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and has |
| 1:53.1 | worked in a variety of intelligence fields including geospatial intelligence, current and |
| 1:58.6 | crisis intelligence, long-term research, policy support, and foreign intelligence relationships. |
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