Barry Scott Zellen

Research Scholar in Geography at the University of Connecticut and Senior Fellow (Arctic Security) at the Institute of the North, specializing in Arctic geopolitics, international relations theory, and the tribal foundations of world order. 2020 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Akureyri in Iceland. Author of 11 published monographs and editor of 3 volumes.
5 Articles

Trump Battles Harvard Over Elitism and Public Subsidies

Trump challenges Harvard’s privileges, subsidies, and foreign student policies in a broader…

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Trump’s Arctic Gambit: The Battle for Greenland

Trump’s renewed push for Greenland reignites historic ambitions, Arctic strategy, and debates…

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How Obsession with China Warps U.S. Arctic Policy

U.S. Arctic policy has fallen prey to anti-China paranoia, distorting research, silencing…

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Why NATO’s Arctic Expansion Is Now Backfiring

The rupture of indigenous unity, a new ‘Ice Curtain’, and growing rifts…

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Arctic Alliances Tested: Cooperation in an Era of Rivalry

Excerpt from Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World, by Barry Scott…

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