Arctic security more than sovereignty
What does Arctic security mean to you?
At first glance it conjures up notions of border security and military operations. However, a recent public opinion survey, Rethinking the Top of the World: Arctic Security Public Opinion Survey, commissioned by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, showed that most Canadians define Arctic security more broadly.
This project with the Munk Centre and the Gordon foundation is about Arctic security, said Graham White, professor of political science at U of T Mississauga and a member of the Gordon Foundation's Northern Advisory Circle. A lot of people assume that means Arctic sovereignty and that it's mainly about military overtones. That's a part of it but it's only a relatively small part.