Zakir Hall - Geopolitics

The stakes in Alaska are not local. They never were. What happens in the Arctic will reverberate through every latitude, in every nation, for every generation yet born. This is the story of that reverberation and of the last great reserve on a changing earth. The Arctic is no longer a frozen periphery. It is a front line. For centuries, the northernmost reaches of Alaska existed in the American imagination as a sublime and silent wilderness, a vast, white expanse where caribou migrated across