Publications, Papers & Presentations
Forthcoming / in Revision / in Review
• Hybrid Sovereignties and Inuit Land Claims: Native Corporations and Resource Co-management as a Continuation of State Expansion ‘By Other Means’, Chapter 10 in Part III: Sovereignty, Brandon L. Christensen, ed., Polycentric Federalism and Word Orders (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025 (forthcoming)).
• NATO Turns North, Part I: As NATO Expands North, New ‘Ice Curtain’ Divides Once United Indigenous Homelands, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, January 2025 (forthcoming).
• NATO Turns North, Part II: Rethinking Russia’s Isolation and Its Risks to Circumpolar Cooperation, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, February 2025 (forthcoming).
• Northward State Expansion and Indigenous Response: A Globally Integrated Arctic Borderland Emerges from Synthesis of “Northern Frontier” and “Northern Homeland.” Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Revised and Updated (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming)), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• 500 Years of Arctic Multinationals: From Colonial Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-Management and Collaborative Governance. Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Revised and Updated (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming)), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• The Dark Side of NATO’s Expansion: As New ‘Ice Curtain’ Fortifies East-West Frontier, Arctic Indigenous Homelands Find Themselves Increasingly Partitioned, Series on NATO in the Arctic, Part II: Human and Environmental Security (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in review)).
• Geological and Prehistoric Foundations of Arctic Geopolitics, Series on Planetary Approaches to Arctic Politics (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in revision)).
• From Knowledge to Power: Knowledge Co-production in the Arctic, Series on Knowledge Production in the Arctic (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in revision)).
• Where East and West Collide? With Russia at War in Ukraine, America Recalibrates Its Embrace of Collaborative Arctic Security, in Geir Hønneland, Svein Vigeland Rottem and Andreas Østhagen, eds., Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic (Edward Elgar Publishing, Revised Edition, 2025 (in production)).
2025
• The Grand Illusion: America’s Anti-China Arctic Policy Rooted in Paranoia, Not Strategic Reality, The Yellowknifer, January 14, 2025,
• America’s Anti-China Arctic Policy is Divorced from Strategic Reality, Yukon News, January 10, 2025,
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2024
• Decentralized Despotism and World Order for an Increasingly Tribalized World, Chapter 6 of Brandon L. Christensen, ed., Global Federalism: Liberty and Security in an Anarchical World, Volume 2: Exit – Secession, Non-Westphalian Sovereignties, and Interstate Federalism (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2024), 191-224.
• Making the Arctic Great Again? Part 3: Trump 2.0 will most likely see a creative approach to foreign relations, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 20, 2024.
• Making the Arctic Great Again? Part 2: Expect more of the same on climate under a second Donald Trump administration, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 7, 2024.
• The Pentagon's New (Upside Down) Arctic Map, The Arctic Institute, December 5, 2024.
• As Ongoing War in Ukraine Precipitates a Crisis in Circumpolar Unity, a Full Restoration of the Arctic Council Is Needed – Now More Than Ever, The Yearbook of Polar Law 15 (Brill | Nijhoff, December 4, 2024).
• The Pentagon's New (Upside Down) Arctic Map (PPT slides), as Presented to the Seventh China-U.S. Arctic Workshop, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 2-4, 2024.
• Making the Arctic Great Again?, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 2, 2024; Juneau Empire (My Turn Column), November 18, 2024 (behind subscriber paywall); and Yukon News, November 12, 2024.
• From the Ice Age to the Anthropocene: Arctic Globalization in a Warming World: The Final Installment of Barry Zellen's 6-part Series on How the Arctic Was Formed, Nunavut News, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), November 7, 2024.
• Migration Mysteries of Ice Age Geopolitics: Part 5 in a Series on How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), November 4, 2024.
• Global Connections Television (GCTV) Interview with Bill Miller, October 20, 2024. Download video file here.
• 20,000 Years of Arctic Globalization: From the Ice Age to the Polar Thaw, Part 4 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), October 12, 2024.
• Snowball Earth: An Age of Arctic Globalism, Part 3 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), October 5, 2024.
• Looking Back at the 'Ages of the Arctic': A Paleohistorical Understanding of Arctic Geopolitics, Part 2 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), September 28, 2024.
• Cold Wars: 600 Million Years of Arctic Geopolitics from Snowball Earth to the Anthropocene, Part 1 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), September 21, 2024.
• 2024 Wildfire Update: Preparing for a Future Arctic Aflame, The Yellowknifer, September 11, 2024 (2 parts combined in online edition).
• Preparing for a Future Arctic Aflame: Can the costs be justified to rebuild NWT communities if they are destroyed by wildfire?, The Yellowknifer, September 11, 2024.
• 2024 Wildfire Update: ‘Not nearly as bad as last year, but far from over’, The Yellowknifer, September 6, 2024.
• Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend: As The Whitehorse Star's 124-Year Run Concludes, its Legacy Continues to Shine Brightly Across the North, The Arctic Institute, June 18, 2024.
• Greenland's Arctic Strategy: Barry Scott Zellen considers the security concerns as Greenland explores a collaborative vision for an Inuit sovereign restoration, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, June 2024, 22-23.
• Arctic Inferno: Across the Arctic and Subarctic, Intensifying Wildfires Threaten National Security, Polar Times: The Journal of the American Polar Society, Spring/Summer 2024. 36-38.
• Goodbye to an old friend: As the Whitehorse Star's 124-year run ends, its legacy shines across the North, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, June 2, 2024.
• The Star Will Always Hold a Special Place in My Heart, The Whitehorse Star, May 17 2024 (final issue)
• Greenland in the World: A Collaborative Vision, Part 1, The Inuvik Drum, May 2, 2024 and Part 2, The Inuvik Drum, May 9, 2024.
• Arctic Exceptionalism in a Contested World: Navigating New Challenges to Circumpolar Unity, UConn Department of Geography Colloquium, Austin 105, April 25, 2024.
• The Arctic Aflame: Intensifying Arctic Wildfires Present a Sobering Reminder that Climate Change Remains a Grave and Gathering Threat to the Arctic, The Arctic Institute, February 24, 2024, https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/.
• North America’s New Arctic Policies: Circumpolar Cooperation - Long a Hallmark of Arctic Diplomacy - Is Once Again in Retreat Amidst Renewed East-West Tensions, a Report for the 2022-23 Project on America’s New Arctic Policy and Canada’s New Arctic Policy.
2023
• Lessons from the 1982 Canadian IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Inuit Bowhead Hunting for Japan’s 2019 IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Coastal Whaling, Chapter 8 in Part II: Cultural Considerations, Nikolas Sellheim and Joji Morishita, eds., Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation: Implications for Global Environmental Diplomacy (Routledge, December 2023).
• The Arctic on Fire: Intensifying Wildfires and Climate Change as a Top Security Threat in the North, Arctic Circle Journal, November 30, 2023.
• Guest comment: The Beginning of a New Normal That’s Anything But, The Yellowknifer, November 27, 2023.
• Guest Comment: Even as Wildfires Proliferate, An Unexpected Evacuation, The Yellowknifer, November 20, 2023.
• Guest Comment: How to Address the Wildfire Threat in the North, The Yellowknifer, November 10, 2023.
• America as a Rogue Arctic Power? The Collapse of Consensus and the Threat to Climate Cooperation as the Arctic Remilitarizes. Presented to the 6th Sino-U.S. Arctic Social Science Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 28, 2023.
• As War in Ukraine Continues, America Refocuses its Attention on Arctic Front, The Polar Times: The Journal of the American Polar Society, Vol 5, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2023), 16-18.
• Finland’s Accession to NATO Alliance Achieved at Last: Interview with University of Lapland Professor Julian Reid, The Daily Campus, April 10, 2023 (part 1); April 11, 2020 (part 2); April 12, 2023 (part 3); April 13, 2023 (part 4) & April 14, 2023 (part 5).
• Calculated Risk? Barry Scott Zellen examines, following Turkey's and Hungary’s consent, the approval by all NATO member states of Finland’s NATO accession, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, April 2023, 12-14.
• As War in Ukraine Upends a Quarter Century of Enduring Arctic Cooperation, the World Needs the Whole Arctic Council Now More Than Ever, The Northern Review, No. 54 (2023), published online December 16, 2022.
2022
• All Busy on the Northern Front: Barry Scott Zellen, PhD reports as war in Ukraine persists, NATO reinforces its northern
flanks and the USA refocuses its attention on the Arctic region, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, November/December 2022, 22-24.
• As Russia-Ukraine War Rages, America Refocuses on the Arctic, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 18 November 2022, https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2022/11/18/as-russia-ukraine-war-rages-america-refocuses-on-the-arctic/
• New Arctic Strategy Prominently Renews America’s Commitment to Indigenous Engagement, UConn Daily Campus, 8 November 2022.
• Emerging Trends in Arctic North America's Maritime Security Agenda: From Ice to Water (with Heather Nicol), in Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North, edited by Arja Rosenholm, Markku Lehtimaki, Nina Tynkkynen and Elena Trubina, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Springer Polar Sciences Series, November 2022.
• All Busy on the Arctic Front: America turns its attention north with renewed energy, UConn Daily Campus, 1 November 2022.
• Russian Aggression Gives US Excuse to Focus Military, and More, on Arctic: In its new strategy, Washington will 'seek to uphold international law, rules, norms, and standards in the Arctic.' Responsible Statecraft, 29 October 2022.
• As NATO Expands Across the North, Russia Faces a Strengthening Unity Among the Arctic 7, UConn Daily Campus, 26 October 2022 and Juneau Empire, 12 October 2022.
• Reflections of Changing Views of Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty: Resilience and Change in the Liberal State (with Heather Nicol), Special Issue on World Orders, and the Federalist Option: Reviving Libertarian Foreign Policy, Cosmos + Taxis (C+T), Volume 10, Number 9-10 (Sept 2022).
• A Sacred Promise Broken? Barry Scott Zellen explains why the decline in indigenous consultation at the Arctic Council signals a retreat from the spirit of the 1996 Ottawa Declaration, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, July/August 2022, 22-24.
• Path to Peace: Barry Scott Zellen explains why as the Arctic thaw continues, lifting the Arctic Council pause presents Russia a viable route to resolution, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, June 2022, 16-18.
• The Arctic Council Pause: The Importance of Indigenous Participation and the Ottawa Declaration, Arctic Circle Assembly Journal, June 14, 2022.
• Cold Shoulder: Barry Scott Zellen examines why the Arctic Council ‘pause’ puts Arctic cooperation into a deep freeze, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, May 2022, 8-10.
• Op-Ed: Arctic Council ‘Pause’ Endangers Humanity’s United Stand Against Climate Change, Nunatsiaq News, May 7, 2022.
• Comment: Why a Freeze on the Arctic Council is Short-sighted, The Globe and Mail, April 27, 2022.
• My Turn: As World Celebrates Earth Day, Arctic Council ‘Pause’ Endangers United Stand Against Climate Change, Juneau Empire, April 27, 2022; Peninsula Clarion, April 28, 2022; and UConn Daily Campus, April 26, 2022.
• The World Needs the Arctic Council Now More Than Ever, The Barents Observer, April 19, 2022; The Whitehorse Star, April 20, 2022; PolarConnection.org, April 20, 2022; and The Inuvik Drum, April 21, 2022.
• Co-management as a Foundation of Arctic Exceptionalism: Strengthening the Bonds between the Indigenous and Westphalian Worlds, The Yearbook of Polar Law XIII (Brill, 2022), 65–92.
2021
• Land Claims as a Continuation of State Expansion and Constitutional Integration by Gentler Means: Enhancing Arctic Sovereignty through Mutual and Reciprocal Recognition of Indigenous and Sovereign Land Rights, conference paper for the 14th Polar Law Symposium, University of Kobe, November 21-23, 2021.
• Geopolitics of the Polar Thaw: Island Chains, Indigenous Peoples and Maritime Security for a Warmer World, conference paper for the 14th Polar Law Symposium, University of Kobe, November 21-23, 2021.
• Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the State: Toward a Universal Convergence of Arctic Reconciliation, a Briefing Note for Arctic Yearbook 2021: Defining and Mapping the Arctic - Sovereignties, Policies and Perceptions, eds. Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot and Justin Barnes (Akureyri: Arctic Portal, November 19, 2021), 610-617.
• Geopolitical Theory for a Warming Arctic: Melting Ice, Emergent Island Chains, and Strategic Competition, Panel SD02: Climate, Extractive Industries, and the Environment, ISA Northeast 2021, November 6, 2021.
• Land Claims as a Continuation of Arctic State Expansion and Constitutional Integration by Other Means, Panel FE04: International Organisations, Law, and Governance, ISA Northeast 2021, November 5, 2021.
• War in the Fog: Historical Memory, the Fog of War, and Unforgetting the Aleutians War, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2021.
• Global Co-Management and the Emergent Arctic: Opportunities for Engagement and Collaboration between Arctic States, Indigenous Permanent Participants, and Observers on the Arctic Council, The Yearbook of Polar Law, Volume 12 (Brill / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), edited by Julia Jabour (2021).
• High Stakes in the High North: Alternative Models for Greenland’s Ongoing Constitutional and Political Transformation, Nordicum Mediterraneum 16:2 (July 2021).
• Geopolitics, Indigenous Peoples and the Polar Thaw: Sub- and Transnational Fault Lines in the Coming Arctic Cold War, Nordicum Medterraneum 16:2 (July 2021).
• Stepping Stones to a Secure Arctic: Strategic importance of arctic island chains grows in lockstep with rise in polar temperatures, state rivalry, Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea, Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council, V78, N1 (Spring 2021), 26-30.
2020
• Co-management and the Foundations of Arctic Exceptionalism: Building a Bridge between the Transnational & Westphalian Worlds, Panel Theme 4: Humans and Human Security in Polar Regions, 13th Polar Law Symposium (Online), Kobe University, November 9-30, 2020.
• Transnational Inuit Sovereignty Meets the Westphalian World: Toward a Post-Westphalian Synthesis or a Collapse of ‘Arctic Exceptionalism?’, Panel on Indigenous Peoples and International Politics, ISA Northeast, November 5-7, 2020.
• Hansai or the Cleansing Fire: How the Interplay of Fog, Friction, and Faith Resulted in the Unintended Atomic Annihilation of Nagasaki’s Christian Community, Wild Blue Yonder, September 29, 2020.
• Tribe-State Collaboration and the Future of Arctic Cooperation: Moderating Inter-State Competition through Collaborative Multilevel Governance, The Polar Journal (Taylor & Francis) (September 1, 2020).
• IR Theory & Greenlandic Independence: Discussant Comments on the Panel on Greenlandic Independence, International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA)'s First Global Island Studies Webinar (GISW), June 24, 2020.
• State Expansion and Indigenous Response in the Arctic: A Globally Integrated Northern Borderland Emerges, in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• Multinational Corporations in the Arctic: From Colonial-Era Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-management and Collaborative Governance, in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
2019
• Chapter 4: Cold Front on a Warming Arctic, in The U.S. Naval Institute on Arctic Naval Operations, Timothy J Demy, ed. Naval Institute Press, 2019.
• A Missed Opportunity: Barry Scott Zellen reveals how China ceded its claims to what is now the Russian Far East, leaving Japan as Asia's pre-eminent near-Arctic state, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, Vol. 29, No. 9 (October 2019), 26-28.
• China and the “Near-Arctic:” An Opportunity Lost Over 150 Years Ago, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, September 5, 2019.
• China and 'Near-Arctic': A Long-Lost Opportunity, The Whitehorse Star, August 26, 2019.
• Donald Trump is thinking of buying Greenland. That’s not necessarily a bad idea, The Globe and Mail, August 18, 2019.
• Greenland as an American Territory: A Bad Idea, a Bold Idea … or a Beyond-the-Horizon Idea worth Studying? White Paper, United States Coast Guard Academy, August 2019.
• China lost chance to be ‘Near-Arctic’ 150 years ago, Stars and Stripes, August 7, 2019.
2018
• The 'Forgotten Hemingway' of Sarawak's Literary Borderlands: Rediscovering the Prolific Oeuvre of Ranee Sylvia Brooke, Sarawak Museum Journal (SMJ) No. 101 (Dec. 2018), 55-70.
2017
• Crossborder Indigenous Collaboration and the Western Arctic Borderland, Chapter Three in Heather Nicol and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds. The Networked North: Borders and Borderlands in the Canadian Arctic Region. Waterloo, Ontario: Borders in Globalization/Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, 2017.
• Dr. Gorka: Hang In There, America Needs You!, American Thinker, April 30, 2017.
• Fighting Fire with Federalism: Gorka’s Visionary Plan for the Islamic World, American Thinker, April 8, 2017.
• The Colossally Dishonest Swamp Attack on Dr. Sebastian Gorka's First-Rate Scholarship, American Thinker, March 17, 2017
2016
• Warming and the Circumpolar North—An Optimistic Perspective, in Part 16: Will Global Warming and the Thawing of the Arctic Promote Conflict or Cooperation?, in Natural Resource Conflicts: From Blood Diamonds to Rainforest Destruction, Volume II: The Americas, Europe, and Key Concepts, M. Troy Burnett, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2016), 619-621.
2015
• Where East and West Converge: The US embrace of Collaborative Security for the Arctic, Chapter 28 of the Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic, edited by Leif Christian Jensen and Geir Hønneland. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: 2015)
• Introduction (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• From Counter-Mapping to Co-Management: The Inuit, the State and the Quest for Collaborative Arctic Sovereignty, Chapter 2 in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• Conclusion (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series, October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
2014
• Introduction (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson) Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• Conclusion (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
2013
• U.S. Defense Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power, Chapter 11 in The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, Northern Lights Series, 2013), ed. Barry Scott Zellen, 227-253.
• Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World, Chapter 16 of The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, Northern Lights Series (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), Barry Scott Zellen, ed., 339-368.
2012
• The Restoration of Shan Sovereignty: Some Reflections, The Shan Herald
Part IV: Paths to Freedom and Shan Independence, 11 Dec 2012
Part III: From Statelessness to Empowerment: Lessons from the Circumpolar Inuit, 5 Sep 2012
Part II: Organic vs. Synthetic States: The Next Fault Line of World Politics, 31 Aug 2012
Part I: American Power and the Shan Restoration: An Alignment of Interests in a Changing World, 29 Aug 2012
• A New Trinity for an Asymmetric World: The Organic, Synthetic and Ethereal (Small Wars Journal, August 20, 2012)
• Rethinking the Subcomponents of World Order (Small Wars Journal, August 15, 2012)
• Arctic Spring II: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography School Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• City, State and More: Singapore’s Experiment in Contemporary Sovereignty (The Culture and Conflict Review, Spring 2012)
• RAHS 2.0: An Interview with Ping Soon Kok, Singapore’s NSCS Director (SecurityInnovator, May 28, 2012)
2011
• Arctic Spring I: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography Academic Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• Dumbfounded: A Short Play in Three Acts (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 2, Issue 1)
• Cold Front: Maritime Security and the Polar Thaw – New Challenges for Arctic Security (Culture & Conflict Review, Vol 5, Issue 2)
• Muscular Nonviolence: People Powered Insurgencies Stage a Stunning Resurgence (Culture & Conflict Review, February 2011)
• Compass: 20 Years Ago: 1991 notable for Natives in Alaska, Canada (Anchorage Daily News, January 28, 2011)
2010
• Into the Promised Land North of Sixty: A Writer’s Journey (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 1, Issue 3, December 2010)
• Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indigenous, State and Global Interests at the Top of the World, Strategic Insights (Strategic Insights IX, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), 53-78)
• North Corps: A Circumpolar Program to Help the North (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 9 (October 2010))
• Inside Operation Hemorrhage: AQAP Releases Special Edition of Inspire (Culture & Conflict Review, December 2010)
• Beyond the Terror War (Culture & Conflict Review, August 2010)
• Clan, the State, and War: Lessons from the Far North (Joint Forces Quarterly 58, July 2010)
• Toward North Corps (Journal of Northern Studies, Spring/Summer 2010)
• Cold Front: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit: A Year after the Inuit Re-Assert their Sovereignty, Washington Takes Their Side (Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No 3 (Spring 2010))
• State of Nature (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 6 (June 2010))
• Arctic Dawn (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 5 (May 2010))
• Cold Snap: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit by Barry Zellen (Culture and Conflict Review, April 2010)
• Reasserting Inuit Sovereignty (Ester Republic, April 2010)
• Promised Land, II (49 Writers, April 29, 2010)
• Promised Land I (49 Writers, April 28, 2010)
• Showdown, II: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit (Tundra Telegraph, April 27 2010)
• Showdown, I: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic (Tundra Telegraph, April 16, 2010)
• Arctic Land Claims Journey (Tundra Telegraph, April 6, 2010)
• Author Interview & Book Review: Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years Under Chinese Rule (by Arjia Rinpoche) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
• Book Review: Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America (by Martin Edwin Andersen) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 3 (49Writers, April 1, 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 2 (49Writers, March 31, 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 1 (49Writers, March 25, 2010)
• Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy (Tundra Telegraph, March 22, 2010)
• On Thin Ice (Tundra Telegraph, March 17, 2010)
• Arctic Showdown: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic (The Ester Republic, March 2010)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 2 (The Ester Republic, February 2010)
• The Inuit, the State, and the Battle for the Arctic (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2010, 57-64)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 1 (The Ester Republic, January 2010)
2009
• From Climategate to Copenhagen (Alaska Report, December 17 2009)
• Opportunity in a Post-Arctic World (Juneau Empire, December 13, 2009)
• The End of the World as We Know It: A Q&A with Barry Zellen on Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom (Alaska Report, 6 Dec 2009)
• Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November/December 2009)
• Toward North Corps: Time for a Circumpolar Peace Corps Program to Help Arctic Achieve Full Potential (Alaska Report, 26 Nov 2009)
• Olympic Torch's Journey Warms Northern Communities (Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada.com and GlobalTV.com, November 12, 2009)
• Torch Has Reinforced Unity Across a Vast Land (Whitehorse Star, November 9, 2009, 7)
• Tribe, State, and War (Culture & Conflict Review, November 2009)
• Ice-Free Boom (The Financial Post, October 27, 2009)
• Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (Intersec: The Journal of International Security, November/December 2009)
• Decreasing Doc Fraud (SecurityInnovator, October 30, 2009)
• Bracing for Bioterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2009)
• Missile Defense: Hope or Hype? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2009)
• UAVs to the Rescue (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2009)
• GWOT Reconsidered (Culture & Conflict Review, July 2009)
• Countdown to a Nuclear Iran (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2009)
• The Lingering Liquid Bomb Threat (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2009)
• Lessons from the Last Frontier: Tribe/State Conflict and the Modern World (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2009)
• War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War (Strategic Insights, April 2009)
• The GWOT in Transition: A New Name for an Old Conflict (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2009)
• Handle with Care: Letter Bombs and Their Lethal Delivery (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2009)
• Securing the Olympics: Lessons of Beijing (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2009)
• Aviation Security at a Crossroads (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2009)
• Toward a Post-Arctic World (Strategic Insights VIII, no. 1 (January 2009)
2008
• Rising Chaos on the Southern Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2008)
• Order in the Court, or Murder in the Court? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2008)
• Book Review: The Consolidation of Dictatorship in Russia: An Inside View of the Demise of Democracy (September 2008)
• Lessons of Iraq: Tribalism, State Collapse and the Emerging Sub-State Contours of the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2008)
• Rising Cabin Pressure: Despite major gains in aviation security since 9/11, in-cabin insecurity persists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2008)
• Melting Ice Heralds a New World of Opportunity (Whitehorse Star, June 4, 2008)
• Arctic Lessons: An Interview with Barry Scott Zellen (American Chronicle, May 26, 2008)
• The Upside of Climate Change (News North, May 1, 2008)
• Stadium Insecurity: America’s next 9/11 might be a mass-casualty attack of a sports stadium packed with fans (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
• On Thin Ice: As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (The Ester Republic 10, No. 5 (May 2008))
• We Should Warm to the Idea of Melting Poles (Globe and Mail, April 28, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-should-warm-to-the-idea-of-melting-poles/article1054687/)
• As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (Alaska Report, April 20, 2008)
• Pipeline Terror on the Rise across the Americas: But Connection to Global Terror War Unlikely (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (Strategic Insights, April 2008)
• Outsourcing War: The privatization of war, which dates back to antiquity, is now back in favor (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2008)
• Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins (Strategic Insights 7, No. 1 (February 2008))
• Southeast Asia's Proliferation Paradox: Without WMD Worries, Small Arms Present Big Proliferation Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2008)
• Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order (an interview with Michael T. Klare) (Strategic Insights, February 2008)
• Document Fraud and Technology, a Double-Edged Sword (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2008)
2007
• Less Lethal Solutions II: Despite Saving Lives, NLWs Come Under Fire as ‘CNN Effect’ Kicks In (SecurityInnovator, November 2, 2007)
• Less Lethal Solutions I: As War on Terror Continues, Non-Lethal Weapons Find a Growing Battlefield Role (SecurityInnovator, October 21, 2007)
• China Rising: Will economic growth transform China from economic partner to strategic adversary? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2007)
• Cold Front: As accelerated global warming reveals hidden riches beneath polar sea, new conflicts heat up
(SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2007)
• Olympic Security in the Age of Mass Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2007)
• Resource Conflicts on the Rise: Strategic competition for natural resources rapidly redefines the world order (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2007)
• Mitigating the Dangers of Strategic Surprise: Singapore rises to the occasion with RAHS (SecurityInnovator, April 2007)
• Whither Victory in the War on Terror? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2007)
• After Katrina: Confronting the Business Continuity Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2007)
• Combating Identity Theft: Rise in cyber-crime demands a coordinated response (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2007)
2006
• In Post-Coup Thailand, Generals Change Course as Southern Insurgency Intensifies (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2006)
• The North Korean Missile Mess: DPRK’s July 4th Tests Generate Divergent Responses from East and West (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2006)
• The Northern Front in the GWOT: Alaska Pipeline Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2006)
• America’s Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2006)
• Securing the DC Metro (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2006)
• Truck Bombing Shifts into High Gear (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2006)
• The Axis of Evil Revisited (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2006)
• ‘Peace is Hell’: Behind the Bombs of Basra (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2006)
• Nuclear Terrorism: Re-Thinking the Unthinkable after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2006)
• Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? Conference report author, byline shared with conference organizers Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, Naval Postgraduate School.
2005
• Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective. Conference report author; byline shared with conference organizers Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, Naval Postgraduate School.
2004
• Confronting the Specter of Agriterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2004)
• Enhancing America's Border & Port Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November 2004)
• Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy. Conference report co-written with conference organizer Peter R. Lavoy and his research associate Christopher Clary, Naval Postgraduate School.
• Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building a 21st Century Force. Co-written with Professor James Russell and Research Assistant Lashley Pulsipher, Naval Postgraduate School.
• Warrior Philosophers to the Rescue (Intelligence and Warning America, May 2004)
2003
• Enhanced Border Surveillance for the Post-9/11 World (SecurityInnovator, April 2, 2003)
• Technology Tames the 'Scariest Place on Earth' (SecurityInnovator, June 2003)
2002
• 'En-Gulfed' by War: A Tragedy in Three Acts (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2002)
• Border Security and the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2002)
1999
• TVNC Goes National with APTN Launch (Cabin Fever, March 1999)
1998
• Media and Aboriginal Culture: An Evolving Relationship (Cultural Survival Quarterly 22, No. 2 (July 1998)
• Surf’s Up: NWT Communities Await a Tidal Wave of Electronic Information (Cultural Survival Quarterly 21, No. 4 (April 1998)
1997
•Aboriginal Culture Breathes Fresh Air: CKLB tastes assimilation and fights back (Interadio, November 1997)
1996
• The Native Press Comes Home, At Last! (Native Press, July 1996)
• NWT Dene Seek a Voice on TVNC (Native Press, July 1996)
1994
• Land Claim’s Hope and Promise Have Vanished (Whitehorse Star, June 14, 1994, 7)
1993
• Grand Strategy After the Cold War: Is It Time to Thrive on Chaos? (with David Killion) (Morrisville News & Citizen, October 21, 1991, 3).
• The Doublespeak Of Yukon Bureaucrats (Whitehorse Star, August 27, 1993, 7)
• The Gwich’in Land Claim, One Year On: 1993 Tetlit Zheh Annual Report (Tetlit Gwich’in Council, July 1993)
• Risks and Promises in the New North (The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1993)
• Nunavut Land Claim: Arctic Dream or Arctic Delusion? The deal promises much but may deliver for the few, not the many (Ottawa Citizen, May 28, 1993, A9)
1992
• The Inuvialuit Bowhead Harvest of 1991: A Pictorial History and Analysis (Inuvik, NT: Inuvialuit-Government Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), 1992).
• The Liberation of Native Peoples (Tusaayaksat, December 1992)
• Inuvialuit Say Yes, but Canada Says No (Tusaayaksat, October 31, 1992, 2–3)
• NWT Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Kakfwi Says Yes to Constitutional Reform (Tusaayaksat, October 1992)
• Northern Development: How High a Price? (Tusaayaksat, October 1992)
• Industrial Development: How high a price? (The Hay River Hub and News North, October 1992)
• Sovereignty and Freedom in the Inupiaq Homeland: An Interview with General John Schaeffer, Alaska National Guard (Excerpt from The Balkanization of the Arctic, Report to Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS), September 1, 1992)
• Aulavik Park Opens on Banks Island: Fulfilling the Land Claims’ Promise (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Largest Ever Muskox Harvest to Commence (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Nunavut Ratification Tour Heads to Arctic Communities (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• One Arctic, One Future? (Arctic Circle Magazine, September 1992)
• Sovereignty and Freedom in the Inupiaq Homeland (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Constitutional Blues: How Should Northerners Vote on Referendum Day? (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• The Native Sovereignty Storm (Tusaayaksat, August 1, 1992)
• ICC Aims for Inuit Self-Governance (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Democracy Challenged at ICC (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Cold War, Warm Hearts: Chukotkans Make History as Inuit Homeland Is Reunited (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Alaskan Inuit Eye Independence (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Chukotkans Aim for Autonomy within the Russian Federation (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Inuvialuktun: Back from the Brink (Tusaayaksat, July 1992)
• Risks and Promises in the New North (The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1992)
• DIZ Group May Have To ‘Dizzolve,’ Lacks Support (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1992, 10)
1991
• Inuvialuit Propose Regional Government for the ISR (Tusaayaksat, December 6, 1991, 8–9)
• 44 Inupiat Visit Western Arctic; Lobby for ANWR Development (Tusaayaksat, December 6, 1991, 6–7)
• Why Let the Bottle Ruin It All? (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Banks Island Readies for Park Visitors (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• The Nunavut Secession: Why Divide the Territory? (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Defending the North: Arctic Air Defense Drill (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Seeking a Solution to Inuvialuit/Gwich’in Land Claims Overlap (Tusaayaksat, October 1991)
• Inuvialuit Seek Solution to Gwich’in Land Overlap (Tusaayaksat, October 21, 1991, 5, 8)
• Congratulations Bowhead Hunters (Tusaayaksat, October 7, 1991, 6–7)
• The Inuvialuit Bowhead Hunt: Restoring a Tradition (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Traditional Bowhead Use Described by Inuvialuit Elder (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Legal Foundation for Bowhead Whale Hunt (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Making History: The Great Bowhead Hunt of 1991 (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• A Magical Moment at Shingle Point (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Celebrating the Rebirth of a Proud Tradition (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Fisheries’ Spokesman Ayles Says Bowhead Hunt Is Legal (Tusaayaksat, August 28, 1991, 6)
• Amoco Lays Off Inuvialuit Staff: Questions Remain (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 4–5)
• Inuvialuit Get Bowhead License: Feds Defend IFA (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 2)
• Gwich’in Claim Cedes Aboriginal Rights (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 15))
• A Look at Controversial ‘Chapter Three’ (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 16)
• Gwich’in Assembly Endorses Claim (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 6)
• Angus Cockney: A Carver’s Journey (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Alaskan Knowledge: ‘Lifetimes of Experience’ Prohibited (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Renowned Anthropologist Freeman to Study Inuvialuit Bowhead Hunt (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Aklavik Prepares for First Bowhead Hunt in Half a Century (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Without a Paddle: Six Canoeists Flown to Wrong River (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Gwich’in Assembly Endorses Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Inuvialuit Journalist Arrested While Recovering from Brain Surgery (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Inuvialuit Land First Bowhead License, Ottawa Defends Subsistence (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Vuntut Gwich’in Chief Roger Kaye on ANWR (Tusaayaksat, July 10, 1991, 20)
• Two Views on ANWR; IRC Considers a Position (Tusaayaksat, July 10, 1991, 20.
• Inuvialuktun Summer Language Camps (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Old Crow Says No to Alcohol (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Celebrating Great Northern Arts (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Spiritualism and Abstraction Merge in Rex Goose’s Carvings (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
Carving in the Breeze: Carl Harrison of Inuvik, a Profile (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Gwich’in Tribal Council Initials Regional Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Controversy Still Surrounds the Extinguishment of Aboriginal Title (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Yukon Rejects Gwich’in Overlap, May Derail Historic Gwich’in Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Forty Minutes on Herschel, a Lifetime of Memories (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Vuntut Gwich’in Fight to Stop Oil Drilling In ANWR (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Traditional Culture Not Killed by Technology (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Teaching Inuvialuktun with Patience & Love (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Dead Men Tell No Lies: NWT Coroner Agrees to Exhume Natives’ Bodies (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Moscow on the Mackenzie: Russian Researchers Engage in a Circumpolar Dialogue (Tusaayaksat, March 1991)
• The Circle of Life (Tusaayaksat, March 1991)
• IRC Holds AGM in Tuk; Re-elects Gruben Chief (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1991, 16)
• Lots of Info at IRC AGM (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1991, 18)
• Gruben Foils Rangers’ Invasion (Tusaayaksat, January 31, 1991, 7)
• Ice Crock: Angus Cockney Recalls Polar Challenge (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Lessons of Valdez: Beaufort Sea Steering Committee Listens to Inuvialuit Concerns (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Oil Industry Group May Dissolve, Lacks Support (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Canadian Rangers Welcomed by Locals (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Cold Front: Inuvialuit Leaders Take Aim at Rangers Exercise (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
1990
• Anthropologist Explores Herschel Island Heritage (Tusaayaksat, December 1990)
• Citizens Forum’s First Stop: Western Arctic (Tusaayaksat, November 1990)
• Will Sugar and Spicer Make Everything Nicer? (Tusaayaksat, November 1990)
• Munich Metaphor Must Not Be Forgotten (Weston Town Crier, August 1990)
• Reflections of a Wandering Jew in the Promised Land North of Sixty (Dannzha, March 1990)
• Let's Save These Native Publications (Whitehorse Star, February 27, 1990, 6)
• Restoring Balance: Justice Comes Back to the Yukon (Whitehorse Star, February 15, 1990, 6)
• Punishing an Act of Freedom (Whitehorse Star, February 1990)
• It Might Be Ugly, But So Am I (Whitehorse Star, February 1990)
• It's Time We All Slowed Down (Whitehorse Star, January 1990)
1989
• Operation Just 'Cause (Whitehorse Star, December 27, 1989, 6)
• AM for PM: From a Local to a Global Voice (Whitehorse Star, December 21, 1989, 6)
• Anger and Outrage in the Wake of a Massacre (Whitehorse Star, December 14, 1989, 6)
• Dumb-Founded: A Play in Three Acts (Yukon 24-Hour Playwriting Competition, December 1989)
• Hybrid Sovereignties and Inuit Land Claims: Native Corporations and Resource Co-management as a Continuation of State Expansion ‘By Other Means’, Chapter 10 in Part III: Sovereignty, Brandon L. Christensen, ed., Polycentric Federalism and Word Orders (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025 (forthcoming)).
• NATO Turns North, Part I: As NATO Expands North, New ‘Ice Curtain’ Divides Once United Indigenous Homelands, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, January 2025 (forthcoming).
• NATO Turns North, Part II: Rethinking Russia’s Isolation and Its Risks to Circumpolar Cooperation, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, February 2025 (forthcoming).
• Northward State Expansion and Indigenous Response: A Globally Integrated Arctic Borderland Emerges from Synthesis of “Northern Frontier” and “Northern Homeland.” Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Revised and Updated (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming)), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• 500 Years of Arctic Multinationals: From Colonial Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-Management and Collaborative Governance. Chapter in Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, Revised and Updated (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 (forthcoming)), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• The Dark Side of NATO’s Expansion: As New ‘Ice Curtain’ Fortifies East-West Frontier, Arctic Indigenous Homelands Find Themselves Increasingly Partitioned, Series on NATO in the Arctic, Part II: Human and Environmental Security (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in review)).
• Geological and Prehistoric Foundations of Arctic Geopolitics, Series on Planetary Approaches to Arctic Politics (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in revision)).
• From Knowledge to Power: Knowledge Co-production in the Arctic, Series on Knowledge Production in the Arctic (The Arctic Institute, Spring 2025 (in revision)).
• Where East and West Collide? With Russia at War in Ukraine, America Recalibrates Its Embrace of Collaborative Arctic Security, in Geir Hønneland, Svein Vigeland Rottem and Andreas Østhagen, eds., Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic (Edward Elgar Publishing, Revised Edition, 2025 (in production)).
2025
• The Grand Illusion: America’s Anti-China Arctic Policy Rooted in Paranoia, Not Strategic Reality, The Yellowknifer, January 14, 2025,
• America’s Anti-China Arctic Policy is Divorced from Strategic Reality, Yukon News, January 10, 2025,
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2024
• Decentralized Despotism and World Order for an Increasingly Tribalized World, Chapter 6 of Brandon L. Christensen, ed., Global Federalism: Liberty and Security in an Anarchical World, Volume 2: Exit – Secession, Non-Westphalian Sovereignties, and Interstate Federalism (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2024), 191-224.
• Making the Arctic Great Again? Part 3: Trump 2.0 will most likely see a creative approach to foreign relations, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 20, 2024.
• Making the Arctic Great Again? Part 2: Expect more of the same on climate under a second Donald Trump administration, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 7, 2024.
• The Pentagon's New (Upside Down) Arctic Map, The Arctic Institute, December 5, 2024.
• As Ongoing War in Ukraine Precipitates a Crisis in Circumpolar Unity, a Full Restoration of the Arctic Council Is Needed – Now More Than Ever, The Yearbook of Polar Law 15 (Brill | Nijhoff, December 4, 2024).
• The Pentagon's New (Upside Down) Arctic Map (PPT slides), as Presented to the Seventh China-U.S. Arctic Workshop, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 2-4, 2024.
• Making the Arctic Great Again?, The Yellowknifer (NNSL.com), December 2, 2024; Juneau Empire (My Turn Column), November 18, 2024 (behind subscriber paywall); and Yukon News, November 12, 2024.
• From the Ice Age to the Anthropocene: Arctic Globalization in a Warming World: The Final Installment of Barry Zellen's 6-part Series on How the Arctic Was Formed, Nunavut News, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), November 7, 2024.
• Migration Mysteries of Ice Age Geopolitics: Part 5 in a Series on How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), November 4, 2024.
• Global Connections Television (GCTV) Interview with Bill Miller, October 20, 2024. Download video file here.
• 20,000 Years of Arctic Globalization: From the Ice Age to the Polar Thaw, Part 4 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), October 12, 2024.
• Snowball Earth: An Age of Arctic Globalism, Part 3 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), October 5, 2024.
• Looking Back at the 'Ages of the Arctic': A Paleohistorical Understanding of Arctic Geopolitics, Part 2 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), September 28, 2024.
• Cold Wars: 600 Million Years of Arctic Geopolitics from Snowball Earth to the Anthropocene, Part 1 in a Series How the Arctic was Formed, The Yellowknifer, Northern News Service Limited (NNSL), September 21, 2024.
• 2024 Wildfire Update: Preparing for a Future Arctic Aflame, The Yellowknifer, September 11, 2024 (2 parts combined in online edition).
• Preparing for a Future Arctic Aflame: Can the costs be justified to rebuild NWT communities if they are destroyed by wildfire?, The Yellowknifer, September 11, 2024.
• 2024 Wildfire Update: ‘Not nearly as bad as last year, but far from over’, The Yellowknifer, September 6, 2024.
• Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend: As The Whitehorse Star's 124-Year Run Concludes, its Legacy Continues to Shine Brightly Across the North, The Arctic Institute, June 18, 2024.
• Greenland's Arctic Strategy: Barry Scott Zellen considers the security concerns as Greenland explores a collaborative vision for an Inuit sovereign restoration, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, June 2024, 22-23.
• Arctic Inferno: Across the Arctic and Subarctic, Intensifying Wildfires Threaten National Security, Polar Times: The Journal of the American Polar Society, Spring/Summer 2024. 36-38.
• Goodbye to an old friend: As the Whitehorse Star's 124-year run ends, its legacy shines across the North, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, June 2, 2024.
• The Star Will Always Hold a Special Place in My Heart, The Whitehorse Star, May 17 2024 (final issue)
• Greenland in the World: A Collaborative Vision, Part 1, The Inuvik Drum, May 2, 2024 and Part 2, The Inuvik Drum, May 9, 2024.
• Arctic Exceptionalism in a Contested World: Navigating New Challenges to Circumpolar Unity, UConn Department of Geography Colloquium, Austin 105, April 25, 2024.
• The Arctic Aflame: Intensifying Arctic Wildfires Present a Sobering Reminder that Climate Change Remains a Grave and Gathering Threat to the Arctic, The Arctic Institute, February 24, 2024, https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/.
• North America’s New Arctic Policies: Circumpolar Cooperation - Long a Hallmark of Arctic Diplomacy - Is Once Again in Retreat Amidst Renewed East-West Tensions, a Report for the 2022-23 Project on America’s New Arctic Policy and Canada’s New Arctic Policy.
2023
• Lessons from the 1982 Canadian IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Inuit Bowhead Hunting for Japan’s 2019 IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Coastal Whaling, Chapter 8 in Part II: Cultural Considerations, Nikolas Sellheim and Joji Morishita, eds., Japan's Withdrawal from International Whaling Regulation: Implications for Global Environmental Diplomacy (Routledge, December 2023).
• The Arctic on Fire: Intensifying Wildfires and Climate Change as a Top Security Threat in the North, Arctic Circle Journal, November 30, 2023.
• Guest comment: The Beginning of a New Normal That’s Anything But, The Yellowknifer, November 27, 2023.
• Guest Comment: Even as Wildfires Proliferate, An Unexpected Evacuation, The Yellowknifer, November 20, 2023.
• Guest Comment: How to Address the Wildfire Threat in the North, The Yellowknifer, November 10, 2023.
• America as a Rogue Arctic Power? The Collapse of Consensus and the Threat to Climate Cooperation as the Arctic Remilitarizes. Presented to the 6th Sino-U.S. Arctic Social Science Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 28, 2023.
• As War in Ukraine Continues, America Refocuses its Attention on Arctic Front, The Polar Times: The Journal of the American Polar Society, Vol 5, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2023), 16-18.
• Finland’s Accession to NATO Alliance Achieved at Last: Interview with University of Lapland Professor Julian Reid, The Daily Campus, April 10, 2023 (part 1); April 11, 2020 (part 2); April 12, 2023 (part 3); April 13, 2023 (part 4) & April 14, 2023 (part 5).
• Calculated Risk? Barry Scott Zellen examines, following Turkey's and Hungary’s consent, the approval by all NATO member states of Finland’s NATO accession, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, April 2023, 12-14.
• As War in Ukraine Upends a Quarter Century of Enduring Arctic Cooperation, the World Needs the Whole Arctic Council Now More Than Ever, The Northern Review, No. 54 (2023), published online December 16, 2022.
2022
• All Busy on the Northern Front: Barry Scott Zellen, PhD reports as war in Ukraine persists, NATO reinforces its northern
flanks and the USA refocuses its attention on the Arctic region, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, November/December 2022, 22-24.
• As Russia-Ukraine War Rages, America Refocuses on the Arctic, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 18 November 2022, https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2022/11/18/as-russia-ukraine-war-rages-america-refocuses-on-the-arctic/
• New Arctic Strategy Prominently Renews America’s Commitment to Indigenous Engagement, UConn Daily Campus, 8 November 2022.
• Emerging Trends in Arctic North America's Maritime Security Agenda: From Ice to Water (with Heather Nicol), in Cold Waters: Tangible and Symbolic Seascapes of the North, edited by Arja Rosenholm, Markku Lehtimaki, Nina Tynkkynen and Elena Trubina, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Springer Polar Sciences Series, November 2022.
• All Busy on the Arctic Front: America turns its attention north with renewed energy, UConn Daily Campus, 1 November 2022.
• Russian Aggression Gives US Excuse to Focus Military, and More, on Arctic: In its new strategy, Washington will 'seek to uphold international law, rules, norms, and standards in the Arctic.' Responsible Statecraft, 29 October 2022.
• As NATO Expands Across the North, Russia Faces a Strengthening Unity Among the Arctic 7, UConn Daily Campus, 26 October 2022 and Juneau Empire, 12 October 2022.
• Reflections of Changing Views of Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty: Resilience and Change in the Liberal State (with Heather Nicol), Special Issue on World Orders, and the Federalist Option: Reviving Libertarian Foreign Policy, Cosmos + Taxis (C+T), Volume 10, Number 9-10 (Sept 2022).
• A Sacred Promise Broken? Barry Scott Zellen explains why the decline in indigenous consultation at the Arctic Council signals a retreat from the spirit of the 1996 Ottawa Declaration, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, July/August 2022, 22-24.
• Path to Peace: Barry Scott Zellen explains why as the Arctic thaw continues, lifting the Arctic Council pause presents Russia a viable route to resolution, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, June 2022, 16-18.
• The Arctic Council Pause: The Importance of Indigenous Participation and the Ottawa Declaration, Arctic Circle Assembly Journal, June 14, 2022.
• Cold Shoulder: Barry Scott Zellen examines why the Arctic Council ‘pause’ puts Arctic cooperation into a deep freeze, INTERSEC: The Journal of International Security, May 2022, 8-10.
• Op-Ed: Arctic Council ‘Pause’ Endangers Humanity’s United Stand Against Climate Change, Nunatsiaq News, May 7, 2022.
• Comment: Why a Freeze on the Arctic Council is Short-sighted, The Globe and Mail, April 27, 2022.
• My Turn: As World Celebrates Earth Day, Arctic Council ‘Pause’ Endangers United Stand Against Climate Change, Juneau Empire, April 27, 2022; Peninsula Clarion, April 28, 2022; and UConn Daily Campus, April 26, 2022.
• The World Needs the Arctic Council Now More Than Ever, The Barents Observer, April 19, 2022; The Whitehorse Star, April 20, 2022; PolarConnection.org, April 20, 2022; and The Inuvik Drum, April 21, 2022.
• Co-management as a Foundation of Arctic Exceptionalism: Strengthening the Bonds between the Indigenous and Westphalian Worlds, The Yearbook of Polar Law XIII (Brill, 2022), 65–92.
2021
• Land Claims as a Continuation of State Expansion and Constitutional Integration by Gentler Means: Enhancing Arctic Sovereignty through Mutual and Reciprocal Recognition of Indigenous and Sovereign Land Rights, conference paper for the 14th Polar Law Symposium, University of Kobe, November 21-23, 2021.
• Geopolitics of the Polar Thaw: Island Chains, Indigenous Peoples and Maritime Security for a Warmer World, conference paper for the 14th Polar Law Symposium, University of Kobe, November 21-23, 2021.
• Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the State: Toward a Universal Convergence of Arctic Reconciliation, a Briefing Note for Arctic Yearbook 2021: Defining and Mapping the Arctic - Sovereignties, Policies and Perceptions, eds. Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot and Justin Barnes (Akureyri: Arctic Portal, November 19, 2021), 610-617.
• Geopolitical Theory for a Warming Arctic: Melting Ice, Emergent Island Chains, and Strategic Competition, Panel SD02: Climate, Extractive Industries, and the Environment, ISA Northeast 2021, November 6, 2021.
• Land Claims as a Continuation of Arctic State Expansion and Constitutional Integration by Other Means, Panel FE04: International Organisations, Law, and Governance, ISA Northeast 2021, November 5, 2021.
• War in the Fog: Historical Memory, the Fog of War, and Unforgetting the Aleutians War, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2021.
• Global Co-Management and the Emergent Arctic: Opportunities for Engagement and Collaboration between Arctic States, Indigenous Permanent Participants, and Observers on the Arctic Council, The Yearbook of Polar Law, Volume 12 (Brill / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers), edited by Julia Jabour (2021).
• High Stakes in the High North: Alternative Models for Greenland’s Ongoing Constitutional and Political Transformation, Nordicum Mediterraneum 16:2 (July 2021).
• Geopolitics, Indigenous Peoples and the Polar Thaw: Sub- and Transnational Fault Lines in the Coming Arctic Cold War, Nordicum Medterraneum 16:2 (July 2021).
• Stepping Stones to a Secure Arctic: Strategic importance of arctic island chains grows in lockstep with rise in polar temperatures, state rivalry, Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea, Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council, V78, N1 (Spring 2021), 26-30.
2020
• Co-management and the Foundations of Arctic Exceptionalism: Building a Bridge between the Transnational & Westphalian Worlds, Panel Theme 4: Humans and Human Security in Polar Regions, 13th Polar Law Symposium (Online), Kobe University, November 9-30, 2020.
• Transnational Inuit Sovereignty Meets the Westphalian World: Toward a Post-Westphalian Synthesis or a Collapse of ‘Arctic Exceptionalism?’, Panel on Indigenous Peoples and International Politics, ISA Northeast, November 5-7, 2020.
• Hansai or the Cleansing Fire: How the Interplay of Fog, Friction, and Faith Resulted in the Unintended Atomic Annihilation of Nagasaki’s Christian Community, Wild Blue Yonder, September 29, 2020.
• Tribe-State Collaboration and the Future of Arctic Cooperation: Moderating Inter-State Competition through Collaborative Multilevel Governance, The Polar Journal (Taylor & Francis) (September 1, 2020).
• IR Theory & Greenlandic Independence: Discussant Comments on the Panel on Greenlandic Independence, International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA)'s First Global Island Studies Webinar (GISW), June 24, 2020.
• State Expansion and Indigenous Response in the Arctic: A Globally Integrated Northern Borderland Emerges, in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
• Multinational Corporations in the Arctic: From Colonial-Era Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-management and Collaborative Governance, in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, eds.
2019
• Chapter 4: Cold Front on a Warming Arctic, in The U.S. Naval Institute on Arctic Naval Operations, Timothy J Demy, ed. Naval Institute Press, 2019.
• A Missed Opportunity: Barry Scott Zellen reveals how China ceded its claims to what is now the Russian Far East, leaving Japan as Asia's pre-eminent near-Arctic state, Intersec: The Journal of International Security, Vol. 29, No. 9 (October 2019), 26-28.
• China and the “Near-Arctic:” An Opportunity Lost Over 150 Years Ago, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, September 5, 2019.
• China and 'Near-Arctic': A Long-Lost Opportunity, The Whitehorse Star, August 26, 2019.
• Donald Trump is thinking of buying Greenland. That’s not necessarily a bad idea, The Globe and Mail, August 18, 2019.
• Greenland as an American Territory: A Bad Idea, a Bold Idea … or a Beyond-the-Horizon Idea worth Studying? White Paper, United States Coast Guard Academy, August 2019.
• China lost chance to be ‘Near-Arctic’ 150 years ago, Stars and Stripes, August 7, 2019.
2018
• The 'Forgotten Hemingway' of Sarawak's Literary Borderlands: Rediscovering the Prolific Oeuvre of Ranee Sylvia Brooke, Sarawak Museum Journal (SMJ) No. 101 (Dec. 2018), 55-70.
2017
• Crossborder Indigenous Collaboration and the Western Arctic Borderland, Chapter Three in Heather Nicol and P. Whitney Lackenbauer, eds. The Networked North: Borders and Borderlands in the Canadian Arctic Region. Waterloo, Ontario: Borders in Globalization/Centre on Foreign Policy and Federalism, 2017.
• Dr. Gorka: Hang In There, America Needs You!, American Thinker, April 30, 2017.
• Fighting Fire with Federalism: Gorka’s Visionary Plan for the Islamic World, American Thinker, April 8, 2017.
• The Colossally Dishonest Swamp Attack on Dr. Sebastian Gorka's First-Rate Scholarship, American Thinker, March 17, 2017
2016
• Warming and the Circumpolar North—An Optimistic Perspective, in Part 16: Will Global Warming and the Thawing of the Arctic Promote Conflict or Cooperation?, in Natural Resource Conflicts: From Blood Diamonds to Rainforest Destruction, Volume II: The Americas, Europe, and Key Concepts, M. Troy Burnett, ed. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2016), 619-621.
2015
• Where East and West Converge: The US embrace of Collaborative Security for the Arctic, Chapter 28 of the Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic, edited by Leif Christian Jensen and Geir Hønneland. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited: 2015)
• Introduction (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• From Counter-Mapping to Co-Management: The Inuit, the State and the Quest for Collaborative Arctic Sovereignty, Chapter 2 in Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge, Complex Real Property Rights Series, 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• Conclusion (co-written with Alan C. Tidwell), Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Conflict (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series, October 2015), Alan C. Tidwell and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
2014
• Introduction (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson) Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
• Conclusion (co-written with Thomas H. Johnson), Culture, Conflict, and Counterinsurgency (Stanford University Press, Stanford Security Studies Series, January 2014), Thomas H. Johnson and Barry Scott Zellen, eds.
2013
• U.S. Defense Policy and the North: The Emergent Arctic Power, Chapter 11 in The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, Northern Lights Series, 2013), ed. Barry Scott Zellen, 227-253.
• Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World, Chapter 16 of The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, Northern Lights Series (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), Barry Scott Zellen, ed., 339-368.
2012
• The Restoration of Shan Sovereignty: Some Reflections, The Shan Herald
Part IV: Paths to Freedom and Shan Independence, 11 Dec 2012
Part III: From Statelessness to Empowerment: Lessons from the Circumpolar Inuit, 5 Sep 2012
Part II: Organic vs. Synthetic States: The Next Fault Line of World Politics, 31 Aug 2012
Part I: American Power and the Shan Restoration: An Alignment of Interests in a Changing World, 29 Aug 2012
• A New Trinity for an Asymmetric World: The Organic, Synthetic and Ethereal (Small Wars Journal, August 20, 2012)
• Rethinking the Subcomponents of World Order (Small Wars Journal, August 15, 2012)
• Arctic Spring II: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography School Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2012.
• City, State and More: Singapore’s Experiment in Contemporary Sovereignty (The Culture and Conflict Review, Spring 2012)
• RAHS 2.0: An Interview with Ping Soon Kok, Singapore’s NSCS Director (SecurityInnovator, May 28, 2012)
2011
• Arctic Spring I: The Post-Arctic World Holds Much Promise for those Willing to Think About the Unthinkable Again. World Geography Academic Site: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2011.
• Dumbfounded: A Short Play in Three Acts (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 2, Issue 1)
• Cold Front: Maritime Security and the Polar Thaw – New Challenges for Arctic Security (Culture & Conflict Review, Vol 5, Issue 2)
• Muscular Nonviolence: People Powered Insurgencies Stage a Stunning Resurgence (Culture & Conflict Review, February 2011)
• Compass: 20 Years Ago: 1991 notable for Natives in Alaska, Canada (Anchorage Daily News, January 28, 2011)
2010
• Into the Promised Land North of Sixty: A Writer’s Journey (Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, Vol 1, Issue 3, December 2010)
• Stability and Security in a Post-Arctic World: Toward a Convergence of Indigenous, State and Global Interests at the Top of the World, Strategic Insights (Strategic Insights IX, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), 53-78)
• North Corps: A Circumpolar Program to Help the North (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 9 (October 2010))
• Inside Operation Hemorrhage: AQAP Releases Special Edition of Inspire (Culture & Conflict Review, December 2010)
• Beyond the Terror War (Culture & Conflict Review, August 2010)
• Clan, the State, and War: Lessons from the Far North (Joint Forces Quarterly 58, July 2010)
• Toward North Corps (Journal of Northern Studies, Spring/Summer 2010)
• Cold Front: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit: A Year after the Inuit Re-Assert their Sovereignty, Washington Takes Their Side (Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No 3 (Spring 2010))
• State of Nature (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 6 (June 2010))
• Arctic Dawn (Ester Republic, Vol 12, Issue 5 (May 2010))
• Cold Snap: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit by Barry Zellen (Culture and Conflict Review, April 2010)
• Reasserting Inuit Sovereignty (Ester Republic, April 2010)
• Promised Land, II (49 Writers, April 29, 2010)
• Promised Land I (49 Writers, April 28, 2010)
• Showdown, II: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit (Tundra Telegraph, April 27 2010)
• Showdown, I: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic (Tundra Telegraph, April 16, 2010)
• Arctic Land Claims Journey (Tundra Telegraph, April 6, 2010)
• Author Interview & Book Review: Surviving the Dragon: A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years Under Chinese Rule (by Arjia Rinpoche) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
• Book Review: Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy, and the Indigenous Challenge in 'Latin' America (by Martin Edwin Andersen) (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 3 (49Writers, April 1, 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 2 (49Writers, March 31, 2010)
• State of Nature, State of Mind, Part 1 (49Writers, March 25, 2010)
• Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy (Tundra Telegraph, March 22, 2010)
• On Thin Ice (Tundra Telegraph, March 17, 2010)
• Arctic Showdown: Inuit, the State and the Fate of the Arctic (The Ester Republic, March 2010)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 2 (The Ester Republic, February 2010)
• The Inuit, the State, and the Battle for the Arctic (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2010, 57-64)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 1 (The Ester Republic, January 2010)
2009
• From Climategate to Copenhagen (Alaska Report, December 17 2009)
• Opportunity in a Post-Arctic World (Juneau Empire, December 13, 2009)
• The End of the World as We Know It: A Q&A with Barry Zellen on Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom (Alaska Report, 6 Dec 2009)
• Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November/December 2009)
• Toward North Corps: Time for a Circumpolar Peace Corps Program to Help Arctic Achieve Full Potential (Alaska Report, 26 Nov 2009)
• Olympic Torch's Journey Warms Northern Communities (Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada.com and GlobalTV.com, November 12, 2009)
• Torch Has Reinforced Unity Across a Vast Land (Whitehorse Star, November 9, 2009, 7)
• Tribe, State, and War (Culture & Conflict Review, November 2009)
• Ice-Free Boom (The Financial Post, October 27, 2009)
• Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (Intersec: The Journal of International Security, November/December 2009)
• Decreasing Doc Fraud (SecurityInnovator, October 30, 2009)
• Bracing for Bioterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2009)
• Missile Defense: Hope or Hype? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2009)
• UAVs to the Rescue (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2009)
• GWOT Reconsidered (Culture & Conflict Review, July 2009)
• Countdown to a Nuclear Iran (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2009)
• The Lingering Liquid Bomb Threat (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2009)
• Lessons from the Last Frontier: Tribe/State Conflict and the Modern World (Culture & Conflict Review, April 2009)
• War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War (Strategic Insights, April 2009)
• The GWOT in Transition: A New Name for an Old Conflict (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2009)
• Handle with Care: Letter Bombs and Their Lethal Delivery (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2009)
• Securing the Olympics: Lessons of Beijing (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2009)
• Aviation Security at a Crossroads (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2009)
• Toward a Post-Arctic World (Strategic Insights VIII, no. 1 (January 2009)
2008
• Rising Chaos on the Southern Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2008)
• Order in the Court, or Murder in the Court? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2008)
• Book Review: The Consolidation of Dictatorship in Russia: An Inside View of the Demise of Democracy (September 2008)
• Lessons of Iraq: Tribalism, State Collapse and the Emerging Sub-State Contours of the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2008)
• Rising Cabin Pressure: Despite major gains in aviation security since 9/11, in-cabin insecurity persists (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2008)
• Melting Ice Heralds a New World of Opportunity (Whitehorse Star, June 4, 2008)
• Arctic Lessons: An Interview with Barry Scott Zellen (American Chronicle, May 26, 2008)
• The Upside of Climate Change (News North, May 1, 2008)
• Stadium Insecurity: America’s next 9/11 might be a mass-casualty attack of a sports stadium packed with fans (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2008)
• On Thin Ice: As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (The Ester Republic 10, No. 5 (May 2008))
• We Should Warm to the Idea of Melting Poles (Globe and Mail, April 28, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/we-should-warm-to-the-idea-of-melting-poles/article1054687/)
• As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (Alaska Report, April 20, 2008)
• Pipeline Terror on the Rise across the Americas: But Connection to Global Terror War Unlikely (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (Strategic Insights, April 2008)
• Outsourcing War: The privatization of war, which dates back to antiquity, is now back in favor (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2008)
• Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins (Strategic Insights 7, No. 1 (February 2008))
• Southeast Asia's Proliferation Paradox: Without WMD Worries, Small Arms Present Big Proliferation Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2008)
• Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order (an interview with Michael T. Klare) (Strategic Insights, February 2008)
• Document Fraud and Technology, a Double-Edged Sword (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2008)
2007
• Less Lethal Solutions II: Despite Saving Lives, NLWs Come Under Fire as ‘CNN Effect’ Kicks In (SecurityInnovator, November 2, 2007)
• Less Lethal Solutions I: As War on Terror Continues, Non-Lethal Weapons Find a Growing Battlefield Role (SecurityInnovator, October 21, 2007)
• China Rising: Will economic growth transform China from economic partner to strategic adversary? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2007)
• Cold Front: As accelerated global warming reveals hidden riches beneath polar sea, new conflicts heat up
(SecurityInnovator/Intersec, July/August 2007)
• Olympic Security in the Age of Mass Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2007)
• Resource Conflicts on the Rise: Strategic competition for natural resources rapidly redefines the world order (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2007)
• Mitigating the Dangers of Strategic Surprise: Singapore rises to the occasion with RAHS (SecurityInnovator, April 2007)
• Whither Victory in the War on Terror? (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2007)
• After Katrina: Confronting the Business Continuity Challenge (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2007)
• Combating Identity Theft: Rise in cyber-crime demands a coordinated response (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2007)
2006
• In Post-Coup Thailand, Generals Change Course as Southern Insurgency Intensifies (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2006)
• The North Korean Missile Mess: DPRK’s July 4th Tests Generate Divergent Responses from East and West (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2006)
• The Northern Front in the GWOT: Alaska Pipeline Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, June 2006)
• America’s Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, May 2006)
• Securing the DC Metro (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, April 2006)
• Truck Bombing Shifts into High Gear (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, March 2006)
• The Axis of Evil Revisited (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, February 2006)
• ‘Peace is Hell’: Behind the Bombs of Basra (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, January 2006)
• Nuclear Terrorism: Re-Thinking the Unthinkable after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, October 2006)
• Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? Conference report author, byline shared with conference organizers Jessica Piombo and Karen Guttieri, Naval Postgraduate School.
2005
• Terrorism Financing & State Responses in Comparative Perspective. Conference report author; byline shared with conference organizers Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas, Naval Postgraduate School.
2004
• Confronting the Specter of Agriterror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2004)
• Enhancing America's Border & Port Security after 9/11 (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, November 2004)
• Dissuasion in U.S. Defense Strategy. Conference report co-written with conference organizer Peter R. Lavoy and his research associate Christopher Clary, Naval Postgraduate School.
• Capabilities-Based Defense Planning: Building a 21st Century Force. Co-written with Professor James Russell and Research Assistant Lashley Pulsipher, Naval Postgraduate School.
• Warrior Philosophers to the Rescue (Intelligence and Warning America, May 2004)
2003
• Enhanced Border Surveillance for the Post-9/11 World (SecurityInnovator, April 2, 2003)
• Technology Tames the 'Scariest Place on Earth' (SecurityInnovator, June 2003)
2002
• 'En-Gulfed' by War: A Tragedy in Three Acts (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, December 2002)
• Border Security and the War on Terror (SecurityInnovator/Intersec, September 2002)
1999
• TVNC Goes National with APTN Launch (Cabin Fever, March 1999)
1998
• Media and Aboriginal Culture: An Evolving Relationship (Cultural Survival Quarterly 22, No. 2 (July 1998)
• Surf’s Up: NWT Communities Await a Tidal Wave of Electronic Information (Cultural Survival Quarterly 21, No. 4 (April 1998)
1997
•Aboriginal Culture Breathes Fresh Air: CKLB tastes assimilation and fights back (Interadio, November 1997)
1996
• The Native Press Comes Home, At Last! (Native Press, July 1996)
• NWT Dene Seek a Voice on TVNC (Native Press, July 1996)
1994
• Land Claim’s Hope and Promise Have Vanished (Whitehorse Star, June 14, 1994, 7)
1993
• Grand Strategy After the Cold War: Is It Time to Thrive on Chaos? (with David Killion) (Morrisville News & Citizen, October 21, 1991, 3).
• The Doublespeak Of Yukon Bureaucrats (Whitehorse Star, August 27, 1993, 7)
• The Gwich’in Land Claim, One Year On: 1993 Tetlit Zheh Annual Report (Tetlit Gwich’in Council, July 1993)
• Risks and Promises in the New North (The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1993)
• Nunavut Land Claim: Arctic Dream or Arctic Delusion? The deal promises much but may deliver for the few, not the many (Ottawa Citizen, May 28, 1993, A9)
1992
• The Inuvialuit Bowhead Harvest of 1991: A Pictorial History and Analysis (Inuvik, NT: Inuvialuit-Government Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC), 1992).
• The Liberation of Native Peoples (Tusaayaksat, December 1992)
• Inuvialuit Say Yes, but Canada Says No (Tusaayaksat, October 31, 1992, 2–3)
• NWT Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Kakfwi Says Yes to Constitutional Reform (Tusaayaksat, October 1992)
• Northern Development: How High a Price? (Tusaayaksat, October 1992)
• Industrial Development: How high a price? (The Hay River Hub and News North, October 1992)
• Sovereignty and Freedom in the Inupiaq Homeland: An Interview with General John Schaeffer, Alaska National Guard (Excerpt from The Balkanization of the Arctic, Report to Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security (CIIPS), September 1, 1992)
• Aulavik Park Opens on Banks Island: Fulfilling the Land Claims’ Promise (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Largest Ever Muskox Harvest to Commence (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Nunavut Ratification Tour Heads to Arctic Communities (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• One Arctic, One Future? (Arctic Circle Magazine, September 1992)
• Sovereignty and Freedom in the Inupiaq Homeland (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• Constitutional Blues: How Should Northerners Vote on Referendum Day? (Tusaayaksat, September 1992)
• The Native Sovereignty Storm (Tusaayaksat, August 1, 1992)
• ICC Aims for Inuit Self-Governance (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Democracy Challenged at ICC (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Cold War, Warm Hearts: Chukotkans Make History as Inuit Homeland Is Reunited (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Alaskan Inuit Eye Independence (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Chukotkans Aim for Autonomy within the Russian Federation (Tusaayaksat, August 1992)
• Inuvialuktun: Back from the Brink (Tusaayaksat, July 1992)
• Risks and Promises in the New North (The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1992)
• DIZ Group May Have To ‘Dizzolve,’ Lacks Support (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1992, 10)
1991
• Inuvialuit Propose Regional Government for the ISR (Tusaayaksat, December 6, 1991, 8–9)
• 44 Inupiat Visit Western Arctic; Lobby for ANWR Development (Tusaayaksat, December 6, 1991, 6–7)
• Why Let the Bottle Ruin It All? (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Banks Island Readies for Park Visitors (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• The Nunavut Secession: Why Divide the Territory? (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Defending the North: Arctic Air Defense Drill (Tusaayaksat, November 1991)
• Seeking a Solution to Inuvialuit/Gwich’in Land Claims Overlap (Tusaayaksat, October 1991)
• Inuvialuit Seek Solution to Gwich’in Land Overlap (Tusaayaksat, October 21, 1991, 5, 8)
• Congratulations Bowhead Hunters (Tusaayaksat, October 7, 1991, 6–7)
• The Inuvialuit Bowhead Hunt: Restoring a Tradition (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Traditional Bowhead Use Described by Inuvialuit Elder (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Legal Foundation for Bowhead Whale Hunt (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Making History: The Great Bowhead Hunt of 1991 (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• A Magical Moment at Shingle Point (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Celebrating the Rebirth of a Proud Tradition (Tusaayaksat, September 1991)
• Fisheries’ Spokesman Ayles Says Bowhead Hunt Is Legal (Tusaayaksat, August 28, 1991, 6)
• Amoco Lays Off Inuvialuit Staff: Questions Remain (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 4–5)
• Inuvialuit Get Bowhead License: Feds Defend IFA (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 2)
• Gwich’in Claim Cedes Aboriginal Rights (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 15))
• A Look at Controversial ‘Chapter Three’ (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 16)
• Gwich’in Assembly Endorses Claim (Tusaayaksat, August 12, 1991, 6)
• Angus Cockney: A Carver’s Journey (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Alaskan Knowledge: ‘Lifetimes of Experience’ Prohibited (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Renowned Anthropologist Freeman to Study Inuvialuit Bowhead Hunt (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Aklavik Prepares for First Bowhead Hunt in Half a Century (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Without a Paddle: Six Canoeists Flown to Wrong River (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Gwich’in Assembly Endorses Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Inuvialuit Journalist Arrested While Recovering from Brain Surgery (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Inuvialuit Land First Bowhead License, Ottawa Defends Subsistence (Tusaayaksat, August 1991)
• Vuntut Gwich’in Chief Roger Kaye on ANWR (Tusaayaksat, July 10, 1991, 20)
• Two Views on ANWR; IRC Considers a Position (Tusaayaksat, July 10, 1991, 20.
• Inuvialuktun Summer Language Camps (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Old Crow Says No to Alcohol (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Celebrating Great Northern Arts (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Spiritualism and Abstraction Merge in Rex Goose’s Carvings (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
Carving in the Breeze: Carl Harrison of Inuvik, a Profile (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Gwich’in Tribal Council Initials Regional Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Controversy Still Surrounds the Extinguishment of Aboriginal Title (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Yukon Rejects Gwich’in Overlap, May Derail Historic Gwich’in Land Claim (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Forty Minutes on Herschel, a Lifetime of Memories (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Vuntut Gwich’in Fight to Stop Oil Drilling In ANWR (Tusaayaksat, July 1991)
• Traditional Culture Not Killed by Technology (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Teaching Inuvialuktun with Patience & Love (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Dead Men Tell No Lies: NWT Coroner Agrees to Exhume Natives’ Bodies (Tusaayaksat, April 1991)
• Moscow on the Mackenzie: Russian Researchers Engage in a Circumpolar Dialogue (Tusaayaksat, March 1991)
• The Circle of Life (Tusaayaksat, March 1991)
• IRC Holds AGM in Tuk; Re-elects Gruben Chief (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1991, 16)
• Lots of Info at IRC AGM (Tusaayaksat, February 10, 1991, 18)
• Gruben Foils Rangers’ Invasion (Tusaayaksat, January 31, 1991, 7)
• Ice Crock: Angus Cockney Recalls Polar Challenge (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Lessons of Valdez: Beaufort Sea Steering Committee Listens to Inuvialuit Concerns (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Oil Industry Group May Dissolve, Lacks Support (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Canadian Rangers Welcomed by Locals (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
• Cold Front: Inuvialuit Leaders Take Aim at Rangers Exercise (Tusaayaksat, January 1991)
1990
• Anthropologist Explores Herschel Island Heritage (Tusaayaksat, December 1990)
• Citizens Forum’s First Stop: Western Arctic (Tusaayaksat, November 1990)
• Will Sugar and Spicer Make Everything Nicer? (Tusaayaksat, November 1990)
• Munich Metaphor Must Not Be Forgotten (Weston Town Crier, August 1990)
• Reflections of a Wandering Jew in the Promised Land North of Sixty (Dannzha, March 1990)
• Let's Save These Native Publications (Whitehorse Star, February 27, 1990, 6)
• Restoring Balance: Justice Comes Back to the Yukon (Whitehorse Star, February 15, 1990, 6)
• Punishing an Act of Freedom (Whitehorse Star, February 1990)
• It Might Be Ugly, But So Am I (Whitehorse Star, February 1990)
• It's Time We All Slowed Down (Whitehorse Star, January 1990)
1989
• Operation Just 'Cause (Whitehorse Star, December 27, 1989, 6)
• AM for PM: From a Local to a Global Voice (Whitehorse Star, December 21, 1989, 6)
• Anger and Outrage in the Wake of a Massacre (Whitehorse Star, December 14, 1989, 6)
• Dumb-Founded: A Play in Three Acts (Yukon 24-Hour Playwriting Competition, December 1989)
