Author Archives: Paul Menke

For this week’s lesson, I found Globalization and the Economies of the North to be vey interesting and engaging. I love learning about economics and finance, and many of the… Read more »

This week’s topic focused on the emerging reality for transportation in the Arctic ocean. Warming waters, as a result of climate change, have been slowly shrinking the range of Arctic… Read more »

The two permanent participants in the Arctic Council that I chose to highly are the Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC) and the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). The Arctic Athabaskan Council represents… Read more »

The concept of the Arctic Council was well-founded; a non-military international institution aimed at fostering communication and cooperation between Arctic nations to benefit their shared arctic environment and people living… Read more »

All theories of International Relations make compelling arguments in regards to state behavior in an international system. Personally, I believe that the realist perspective makes the most accurate assumptions on… Read more »