Abstract: There is a need to emphatically acknowledge the Antarctic as a ‘global knowledge commons’ and put into place a new profile of Asia in relation to the Antarctic. The challenge is to transform the contentious and contested assertions of territoriality to collectively shared norms of trusteeship so that a reinvigorated, Antarctic Treaty Secretariat remains effective enough to realise the noble objectives enshrined in the preamble to the Antarctic Treaty.
The author is Professor of Political Science, Centre for the Study of Geopolitics, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. csgiorg@gmail.com
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