Apocalypse - 2007

Contributers include: Maureen Tolman Flannery, Marian Kaplan Shapiro, April Van Dam, Charles Reynard, Diane Rumsfield, Joan Payne Kincaid, Brigid Blum, Dez Harper, Paul Degen, Chantalism, Mitch Omar, Steve Trebellas, Karen Schubert, John Thornton, Trina Graynon, Sarah Nelson, Cecilia Carboni, Lourdes Harper, Leslie DeJan Martinez, Patty Pieczka, Bruce Pratt, Helen Ruggieri, K.B. Ballentine, R. Matthews, J.E. Baker, Joel Griffith, Joris Soeding, Joy Beshears Hagy, Jackson Lassiter, Susan T. Layug, Alan Davis, Jessica Censotti, Elaine Greensmith Jordan, Daniel Rippeteau, Christine Swanson, B.Z. Niditch, Monideepa Sahu, B.R. Wiksten, Megan Hahn, Anthony Gayle, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Benjamin Percyhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/apocalypse/1009/thumbnail.jp

The Next Geographical Pivot

In the summer of 2007, when the Russian fl ag was placed on the ocean fl oor at the North Pole and the Arctic ice cover receded to the lowest extent ever recorded, the media sought story lines that would grab the public’s attention. Titles and headlines such as “Arctic Meltdown,” “A New Cold War,” and “Arctic Land Grab,” focusing on Russian activities in the Arctic, all fed a sense of competition, conflict, and crisis