1st Edition

The Emerging Politics of Antarctica

Edited By Anne-Marie Brady Copyright 2013
296 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the post-Cold War challenges facing Antarctic governance. It seeks to understand the interests of new players in Antarctic affairs such as China, India, Korea and Malaysia, and how other key players such as Russia and the USA or claimant states such as New Zealand or France are coping in the new global order. Antarctica is the world's fifth largest continent and its... Read more

Preface: Anne-Marie Brady  Part 1: Antarctic Politics in the Current World Order 1. The Antarctic Treaty: Challenges, Coordination, and Congruity Marcus Haward Part 2: Antarctica and Competing Foreign Policy Objectives  2. China's Rise in Antarctica? Anne-Marie Brady  3. India and Antarctica: Towards Post-Colonial Engagement? Sanjay Chaturvedi  4. South Korea's Strategic Interests in Antarctica, Anne-Marie Brady and Kim Seungryeul  5. Malaysia Turns to Science to Re-engage with the Antarctic Treaty System BA Hamzah  6. United States foreign policy interests in Antarctica Christopher C. Joyner  7. Russia, the post-Soviet world, and Antarctica Irina Gan  8. New Zealand's Antarctica Anne-Marie Brady  9. The French Connection-the role of France in the Antarctic Treaty System Chavelli Sulikowski  Part 3: Burning Issues on the Antarctic Ice  10. Rallying Round a Flag? Scientific Internationalism in Word and Deed Aant Elzinga  11. Titanic Part II? Tourism, Uncertainty, and Insecurity in Antarctica Jane Verbitsky  12. Biological prospecting in the Antarctic: Fair Game? Julia Jabour

Biography

Anne-Marie Brady is an Associate Professor in Political Science specializing in Chinese and Polar politics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.