New podcast: the Arctic as 'geopolitical hotspot'
Russian and Norwegian interests intersect and occasionally collide in the Barents Sea and Svalbard, an area of the Arctic where lucrative fisheries, energy resources and strategic nuclear forces exist in relative proximity.
To analyse why simmering tensions between Norway and Russia in the Barents-Svalbard region keep rising to the surface time and time again, the podcast Polar Geopolitics recently published an episode on the issue, featuring FNI’s Senior Research Fellow Andreas Østhagen.
You can listen to the podcast episode here.