The Contemporary Geopolitics of the Arctic March 24, 2011

by Prof Klaus Dodds,
Royal Holloway University
Professor of Geopolitics,
Director of Politics & Environment Research Group

Professor Klaus Dodds researches in the areas of geopolitics, media and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He was an academic consultant on the Discovering the Arctic website operated by the Royal Geographical Society.

In November 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and human geography.
His books include Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction, Global Geopolitics: A Critical Introduction and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire.
He is Director of Politics & Environment Research Group whose aim is to promote interdisciplinary research based on three themes of major importance:
1. the geographies of governance and the politics of scale
2. popular culture and geographical representations of environmental change and security
3. public understandings of policy making