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"Geopolitics of Northern Development" Panel in New York Tomorrow

NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and the Quebec Government Office in New York City will be co-hosting a panel tomorrow, Monday, February 28 at 6:30 pm entitled, “Going North: The Geopolitics of Northern Development.” The main topic of discussion will be how resource and shipping developments in the Arctic are affecting geopolitics in the region. On the panel will be Edward Morse, head of commodities research at Credit Suisse, and Joel Plouffe, a visiting scholar at the University of Quebec at Montreal. I’ll also be participating in the panel. Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the Economist’s energy correspondent, will moderate, and Michael Levi, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will serve as the discussant.

For more information, click here. Registration is required for the event, which is taking place at the Woolworth Building in downtown Manhattan.

 

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Mia Bennett

Mia Bennett is pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received her MPhil (with Distinction) in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, where she was a Gates Scholar.

Mia examines how climate change is reshaping the geopolitics of the Arctic through an investigation of scientific endeavors, transportation and trade networks, governance, and natural resource development. Her masters dissertation investigated the extent of an Asian-Arctic region, focusing on the activities of Korea, China, and Japan in the circumpolar north. Mia's work has appeared in ReNew Canada, Water Canada, FACTA, and Baltic Rim Economies, among other publications.

She speaks French, Swedish, and is learning Russian.

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