Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

"The book presents rigorous and thought provoking chapters, making significant contributions about framing of sovereignty and notions of security in countries other than Canada. The book will be of interest to Arctic scholars, particularly in Canada, in addition to less specialized readers interested in Canadian foreign policy or broad regional politics."

Andrew Chater, Brescia University College, Security Dialogue

"Do the meanings that we ascribe to ‘sovereignty’ and ‘security’ depend on our context, identity, or self-interest? By raising this awkward question and addressing it from different historical, geographic, and disciplinary perspectives, Breaking Through makes a valuable contribution to Arctic scholarship."

Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, and author of International Law and the Arctic

"If you want to understand the contours of sovereignty and security in the circumpolar Arctic, then look no further. Greaves and Lackenbauer have assembled a distinguished academic cast to consider two fundamental principles: Arctic security starts at home, and making sovereignty secure means listening to and working with the communities who call the Arctic home."

Klaus Dodds, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-author of The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know