overthecircle.com/2025/08/30/n... The Norwegian government has just published a new Arctic strategy paper. How will foreign affairs, including the northern affairs and security, factor into the vote on 8 September?

overthecircle.com/2025/07/04/y... The red flags may have been taken down at Pyramiden, but challenges to Norwegian sovereignty in Svalbard, including from Russia, remain.

overthecircle.com/2025/04/20/c... New this weekend: an OtC post looking how the upcoming Canadian election may affect its #Arctic policies at a fraught time for the region.

overthecircle.com/2025/03/24/g... A new OtC post on the Greenlandic parliamentary elections and the renewal of US annexation stresses.

overthecircle.com/2025/02/01/a... As the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø wrapped up, more signs of an unraveling regional security order appear.

overthecircle.com/2024/12/05/m... The recent Icelandic elections were a victory for the opposition parties, but what sort of coalition will be the result?

www.cryopolitics.com/2024/11/14/n... A new thoughtful commentary in Cryopolitics about the precarious state of #Arctic cooperation.

overthecircle.com/2024/07/01/o... An OtC Long Read from July about how Svalbard is finding itself caught in the growing geopolitical whirlwinds in the Arctic.

overthecircle.com/2024/09/29/a... From September: OtC comments on the latest Arctic strategy paper from the Government of Germany 🇩🇪.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Norway's SV / Socialist Left Party has just scuttled seabed mining plans by the government. Excellent news for the Arctic environment!

overthecircle.com/2024/11/02/a... OtC was one of the many news sites which covered the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík last month. What has changed in the far north recently, and what hasn't?

overthecircle.com/2024/11/09/a... In the wake of the recent US election, what might be the aftershocks for Arctic cooperation and potential conflict?

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