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issues. History teaches us that the scale of foreseen Arctic commercialization and resource
development will likely create security challenges that the present arrangements for Arctic
governance will not be able to handle. Adding to this is the accelerating climate change and its
many unknown consequence that will make the future challenges even more complicated.
Indeed, there are already signs of fragmentation surfacing in the region. The five Arctic “coastal”
states have carved out