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Podcast: Polar Geopolitics - Arctic and Antarctic analysis
Episode: Pandemic 2020 and the polar regions: The geopolitical year in review with Prof. Klaus Dodds
Description: The rise of great power competition in the Arctic, the disruption of Antarctic governance due to COVID-19, and the impact of the coronavirus on vulnerable Arctic communities were some of the notable polar topics covered on this podcast during the course of the pandemic year of 2020. In this year-end review, Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University, discusses what he sees as some of the most significant geopolitical aspects of the pandemic in the polar regions and beyond during this extraordinary year in world history.