University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
Publication Date
Winter 2025
First Page
47
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article adopts a spatial approach to understanding geopolitical events in the Arctic. It is sensitive to emerging securityscapes that cannot disentangle from broader global implications of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. A melting Arctic is reshaping the liner boundaries that define membership within its historically closed circumpolar polity; however, the international legal challenges to global Arctic governance, dangerously suspended due to a breakdown in Arctic governance relations with the Arctic’s dominant stakeholder—Russia— must also contest crudely defined actorless threats that persist in a climate of geopolitical stalemate and rising tensions. These actorless threats form the proper crisis that challenge regional and global security.
Repository Citation
christopher rossi,
Return of the Grobraum and the Proper Security Crisis of Rising Arctic Tension,
46
U. Pa. J. Int’l L.
47
(2025).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol46/iss5/3