When you look at the Mercator map head-on, Greenland appears to sit at the edge of the world, in a remote and marginal location. But take a look instead at Richard Edes Harrison’s maps “The Divided World” (published in 1941) and “One World One War” (published in 1942). According to Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, published in Fortune Magazine for ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein Until recently, little was known, and even less was said about the Arctic Ocean. It was associated with a compact and impregnable mass of ice near the North Pole, where peaceful people lived their lives in communion with nature and scientists from all over the world who carried out research. All of this has been altered ...
The “Arctic Ocean” or the “Arctic Sea” has turned into one of the major hegemonic conflict areas of the 21st century. The potentiality to connect approximately 75% of the world’s population due to the melting ice, and its rich seabed and living marine resources turns the region into a major arena of great power competition. China’s last year self-definition as ...