TY - JOUR
AU - Potts, Tavis
AB -  © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/092735208X272256 Th e International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 23 (2008) 151–176 www.brill.nl/estu THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARINE AND COASTAL LAW Current Legal Developments Th e Arctic An Arctic Scramble? Opportunities and Th reats in the (Formerly) Frozen North Th e planting of a flag in a titanium canister on the seabed at the North Pole in August 2007 on the part of the Russian Federation and efforts by the other Arctic Ocean littoral states to reinforce their territorial and, particularly, mari- time jurisdictional claims in the region, led to the Arctic becoming the focus of considerable global media attention in recent months. Much of this coverage has been alarmist in tone, replete with tales of a “scramble” 1 or “race” 2 for the Arctic, talk of an Arctic “land-grab”, 3 and unease over a resultant Arctic resource “gold rush”. 4 Although some of the media and even diplomatic responses have been, to say the least, somewhat misleading, these events have been set against the backdrop of some startling and potentially profound changes to the Arctic environment which have also served to heighten concerns over events in the region. Th 
TI - The Arctic
JO - The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
DO - 10.1163/092735208X272256
DA - 2008-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/the-arctic-V61JAXGh2H
SP - 151
EP - 176
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -