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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “frederic lasserre”
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  • Arctic Shipping

    Climate Change, Commercial Traffic and Port Development

    Edited by Frédéric Lasserre, Olivier Faury ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Transport Analysis
    This book considers both the present state of Arctic shipping and possible future trends with reference to the various sectors of maritime transportation: cruise tourism, container traffic and bulk shipping. Ports are analysed as tools that support the strategies of coastal states to foster the development of resource extraction, enhance the attractiveness of Arctic shipping lanes and enable the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia

    Political and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Barthelemy Courmont, Frederic Lasserre, Eric Mottet ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in the South China Sea
    Combining practical and theoretical approaches, this book addresses the political, legal and economic implications of maritime disputes in East Asia.The maritime disputes in East Asia have multiplied over the past few years, in parallel with the economic growth of the countries in the region, the rise of nationalist movements, fears and sometimes fantasies regarding the emergence of the People’s ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada

    by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Lajeunesse, Frederic Lasserre, James Manicom ...
    Series Book 5 - Beyond Boundaries
    China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China's increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and the potential impacts of greater Chinese presence in the circumpolar region, exploring resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and security.Drawing on extensive research in Chinese ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Wrestling with Colonialism On Steroids

    Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

    by Zebedee Nungak ...
    Series series Dossier Québec
    For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace.In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree “Davids” took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Arctic Promise

    Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut

    by Natalia Loukacheva ...
    In Canada's Eastern Arctic and Greenland, the Inuit have been the majority for centuries. In recent years, they have been given a promise from Canadian and Danish governments that offers them more responsibility for their lands and thus control over their lives without fear of being outnumbered by outsiders. The Arctic Promise looks at how much the Inuit vision of self-governance relates to the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • China as a Polar Great Power

    by Anne-Marie Brady ...
    China has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in international relations studies; yet China, a rising power globally, is now widely using this term to categorize its aspirations and emphasize the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    by Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • International Law and the Arctic

    by Michael Byers ...
    Series Book 103 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Climate change and rising oil prices have thrust the Arctic to the top of the foreign policy agenda and raised difficult issues of sovereignty, security and environmental protection. Improved access for shipping and resource development is leading to new international rules on safety, pollution prevention and emergency response. Around the Arctic, maritime boundary disputes are being negotiated ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Breaking Through

    Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

    Edited by Wilfrid Greaves, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • The Scramble for the Poles

    The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic

    by Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall ...
    In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq

    A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

    by Shelley Wright ...
    Series Book 75 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this magnificent place - and that it is undergoing a dangerous transformation. The Arctic ice is ... Read more

    $31.49 USD