South Pole Expedition: Antarctic is influenced by a range of circumstances and developments and faces a number of outstanding challenges. The last fifty years demonstrate only too clearly how the governance of Antarctic has become ever more complex and multi-layered as states, non-state organisations, media networks and international actors participate and shape polar governance and political relations.
Abstract: 1959 Antarctic Treaty: The legacy and the challenges
Created in the midst of the Cold War five decades ago, the Antarctic Treaty provided a mechanism for governing the region. In the following years, new issues such as fishing and tourism along with an expanded membership have transformed the politics of Antarctic and continue to provoke serious challenges to its governance.
The author is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author of five books including Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris, 2002) and Geopolitics in Antarctica: Views from the Southern Oceanic Rim (Wiley, 1997), k.dodds@rhul.ac.uk
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