“As it takes up the Arctic Council chair, the United States has immense resources and influence that it can bring to bear in leading the council. It can bring great authority to the council’s efforts to maintain the Arctic as a zone of cooperation and to build the consensus that permits all parties to work together effectively.”
Virginia is director of the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Studies.
Read the full opinion piece, published 8/8/14 by The Hill.