Excerpts from an opinion piece by David M. Slayton, research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Co-Chair of the Hoover Institution’s Arctic Security Initiative, and Katarzyna Zysk, Ph.D., associate Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College:

After years of promises to fulfil the process of settling the outer limits of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, and subsequent postponements, Russia finally completed works on the partly revised application and sent it to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). The Russian authorities are convinced that after years of scientific examinations, the nation has now all the necessary data to prove that an impressive chunk of the Arctic continental shelf encompassing up to 1.2 million km2 should be under Russia’s control.

The recent claim has been seen by some media and commentators as yet another ominous sign of an expansionist and revisionist Russia, attempting to undermine the existing status quo by reshuffling borders.

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