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Bipandeep Sharma

Bipandeep Sharma is a Research Analyst at the Non-Traditional Security Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. He works on Polar Regions where his core areas of expertise is on Polar Geopolitics. Here at the institute he focuses on security and strategic developments in the Arctic; aspects of Antarctic governance, and on emerging issues of climate change and economic development in these regions.

Bipandeep Sharma has obtained his PhD form the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has done his M.Phil. and Masters in Defence and Strategic Studies. Prior to joining MP-IDSA he has taught papers on Contemporary Global Politics; International Relations; Climate Change and Sustainable Development, at the Institute of Social Science Education and Research, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Research Analyst

Publication

Hot Stakes in the Arctic: Global Rivalries and New Geopolitical Forces

The Arctic, so exquisitely remote, seems at times to drift beyond the reach of global politics. In this frigid expanse, the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum standing as a rare bridge, kept its most formidable of rivals—Russia and the US—together, compelling the two to cooperate even as they continued to lock horns elsewhere. It seemed almost too good to be true. The enduring East-West peace once held in the Arctic has come under unaccustomed strain due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, disrupting governance, research and economic activity while challenging decades of practical and operational cooperation across the region’s vast landscapes and seascapes spanning the northern reaches of North America, Europe and Asia.

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The Big Picture of Arctic Geopolitics: An Actor Oriented Analysis

Bipandeep Sharma
January 29, 2024

Research Analyst, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Mr Bipandeep Sharma’s chapter on 'India', has been included in the report ‘The Big Picture of Arctic Geopolitics: An actor oriented analysis’, edited by Iselin Németh Winther and Andreas Østhagen, and published by Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway.

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