Putin

“A Jewel in Two Crowns”: National Geographic, April 2011.

“Britain and Europe”: Steven Erlanger, “Britain and Europe Sleepwalked into Ukraine Crisis Report Says,” New York Times, February 20, 2015.

“The E.U. operates”: Andrew Higgins, “Upheaval Highlights E.U.’s Past Miscalculations and Future Dangers,” New York Times, March 21, 2014.

“arch-Russophobe”: Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 504.

“When the Russian government”: Peter Hopkirk, Setting the East Ablaze (New York: Kondasha, 1984), p. 142.

“Despite the fact”: Anna Dolgov, “Navalny Wouldn’t Return Crimea,” Moscow Times, October 16, 2014.

PART FIVE: NORTH- AND EASTWARD

“…With escalating”: Andrew Small, “Chinese Foreign Policy Comes of Age,” New York Times, March 26, 2015.

CHAPTER 8: RUSSIA’S MECCA: THE ARCTIC

“The Arctic has always”: “Frozen Conflict,” Economist, December 20, 2014.

“The Arctic is Russia’s Mecca”: “Norway in Arctic Dispute with Russia over Rogozin Visit,” BBC News, April 20, 2015. Also appears as “The Arctic is a Russian Mecca” in Steve Lee Myers, “Arctic Council Meeting Nears in the Shadow of Tension with Russia,” New York Times, April 24, 2015.

“Tanks don’t need”: Franz-Stefan Gady, “Meet the Russian Politician Who Thinks,” Diplomat, May 27, 2015.

“Our interests”: Adam Taylor, “Putin Thinks of the Past When Talking Ukraine—but the Arctic When He Sees Russia’s Future,” Washington Post, August 29, 2014.

“main resource base”: Bruce Panner, “Security Concerns Rising as Arctic Thaw Spurs Race for Oil,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), January 29, 2009.

“This isn’t the fifteenth”: Roderick Kefferputz, “On Thin Ice?” CEPS Policy Brief no. 205, February 2010.

“The Russians sent”: Lawrence Daina and Daniel Dombey, “Canada Joins Rush to Claim the Arctic,” Financial Times, August 9, 2007.

“The Arctic has always experienced”: Scott Borgerson, “Arctic Meltdown,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008, p. 65.

“the process whereby”: CEPS Policy Brief no. 205, February 2010.

“polar invertebrates”: Ibid.

“trans-Arctic Panama Canal”: Christoph Seidler and Gerald Trauletter, “Boon to Global Shipping: Melting of Artic Ice Opening Up New Routes to Asia,” Der Spiegel Online, September 27, 2010.

“The Arctic … is just an ocean”: “Exploitation of Arctic Resources Will Happen,” Der Spiegel Online, October 26, 2012.

“natural prolongation”: “Definition of the Continental Shelf,” UNCLOS 1982, Part VI, Article 76, p. 53.

“the treaty’s litigation”: Keith Johnson, “GOP Scuttles Law-of-Sea Treaty,” Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2012.

“Not since we acquired”: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s speech on the Law of the Sea, May 2012, Council on Foreign Relations, May 9, 2012.

“designated by the Bush”: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Senator Richard G. Lugar Opening Statement, September 27, 2007. www.ceanlaw.org.

“As the world’s”: Ibid.

“excessive claims”: Ibid.

“A crack in the ice”: Terence Armstrong, The Russians in the Arctic (Fair Lawn, N.J.: Essential Books, 1958), p. 74.

“This sort of thing”: Ibid.

“boldly conceived”: Ibid., p. 78.

“everything that is known”: Ibid., p. 163.

“the worst journey”: “Worst Journey in the World,” RFE/RL, March 20, 2013.

“completely devoid”: “Nuclear Waste Poses Arctic Threat,” BBC News, March 1, 2013.

“A Russian Academy of Sciences”: “Arctic Oil Drilling Threatens International Radioactive Contamination from Old Soviet Nuclear Dump Sites,” Bellona, www.bellona.org/articles, February 3, 2009.

“didn’t show signs” and “my colleagues and I,” “Imagine an old mouse,” “Experiments have already”: Arama Ter-Ghazaryan, “Ancient Bacteria Might Help Us Live to 140,” RBTH (Russia Beyond the Headlines), October 19, 2015.

“a national threat”: Michael Bohm, “Carelessness as a Russian National Trait,” Moscow Times, August 2, 2013.