China's Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada

by P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Adam Lajeunesse, Frederic Lasserre, James Manicom

Overview

China’s interest in the Arctic is growing. What does this mean for Canada?

This wide-ranging, in-depth study of China’s Arctic interests offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese presence and intentions in the circumpolar region. It explores resource development, shipping, scientific research, governance, and military strategy. Drawing on extensive research, this book eschews the assumption that Chinese actions are unified and monolithic. Instead, it offers an analysis of the different, often competing interests and priorities of Chinese government and industry. It places Chinese activity within a Canadian perspective, providing an unparalleled view of China’s effect on the Canadian North

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552389010
Publisher:	University of Calgary Press
Publication date:	01/25/2018
Series:	Beyond Boundaries , #5
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	422,858
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press).

Adam Lajeunesse is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Arctic Marine Security Policy at St. Francis Xavier University. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Military, Strategic, and Security Studies and the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary, and a fellow with the Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Lajeunesse is a regular lecturer at the NATO Defence College (Rome) and the Canadian Forces College (Toronto), as well as a frequent speaker on northern security issues for academic, government, and military audiences. He is the author of Lock, Stock and Icebergs (UBC Press) - a history of Canada's Arctic maritime sovereignty.

Frédéric Lasserre is a professor of Geography at Laval University, Directeur du Centre Québécois d'Études géopolitiques and a research associate at Groupe d'études et de recherche sur l'Asie contemporaine.

James Manicom is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. He is the author of Bridging Troubled Waters: China, Japan and Maritime Order in the East China Sea (Georgetown University Press).