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Increasingly, writes Vijay Prashad, NATO, with operations based in Norway, is replacing the Arctic Council as a decision-making authority in the region
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
In 1996, the eight countries on the Arctic rim Canada, Denmark, Finland,