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Outline of the Contents of Each Chapter
The preface presents the author's qualifications for writing the book based upon his academic background and military service. Chapter 1 provides a recent history of security operations in the North Atlantic and illustrates how global climate change and increasing militarization in the region could result in a less stable Arctic. Analysis of security policies of the Arctic Council members in Chapter 2 provides an illustration of the region's political and military complexity, emphasizing Iceland's sole status as a small-state dependent upon the shelter of large states. Chapter 3 surveys academic studies of Arctic security and points out the failure of most scholars to provide advice and recommendations useful to policy makers for designing and implementing security capabilities. A recommendation in Chapter 4 to create a regional command and control structure in the North Atlantic results in a proposed West Nordic Security Zone that would coordinate small-state's security operations below the strategic level. In Chapter 5, the author designs and proposes a table of organization and equipment for a national security force for Iceland to engage sub-strategic threats. Using his extensive experience as a military exercise planner, in Chapter 6 the author presents four futuristic fictional scenarios to illustrate the successful application of the Icelandic security force. Chapter 7 reviews the attitudes held by the Iceland's population and examines how Halldór Laxness helped solidify the country's anti-military sentiment. In the final chapter, the author details Iceland's relevant laws and policies involving security, suggesting how the proposals recommended in the book address the nation's call for increased sub-strategic security posture and capability.
Author: Robert P. Wheelersburg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/17/2022
Pages: 149
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9783030899479
ISBN10: 3030899470
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Science | Earth Sciences | Geography
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Policy
About the Author
With nearly five decades of research and military experience in the Arctic, Robert Wheelersburg is uniquely prepared to discuss security policy in the Nordic and North Atlantic Regions. He holds a Ph.D. from Brown University in Anthropology and Circumpolar Studies and has conducted fieldwork among Saami reindeer herders in Sweden and Russia (Kola Peninsula) for over twenty years, along with fieldwork and archival work in Denmark, Iceland, and Finland for nearly thirty years. Dr. Wheelersburg received three Fulbright Scholarships; two to Umea University's Arctic and Saami Studies Departments and one to the University of Iceland's Centre for Arctic Policy Studies. He has obtained several grants to conduct his research including funding from such organizations as the U.S. National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Science Program and the American Scandinavian Foundation, publishing several articles in journals like Arctic Anthropology, Polar Geography, Arctic, and Polar Record. Dr. Wheelersburg also served as a U.S. Army officer assigned to NATO as an intelligence, civil military operations, and disaster assistance liaison officer for twenty five years, performing duty in northern Germany, Iceland (as a member of the Icelandic Defence Force), and as an exchange officer with the Swedish Rangers.
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