Superpowers and the Arctic - further planning

New Statesman article.
Makes good reading for our unit on Superpowers in the next half term.

Superpowers and Conflict - some planning

After half term, we are going to be exploring a new unit on Conflict connecting with the idea of Superpowers.

This is a development of our existing unit, but with a new focus and some new resources.
I've mined a few bits from Google Drive, TeachitGeography and some earlier work by Simon Oakes.

This weekend, the Guardian published a piece by Simon Tisdall on the possible new superpowers of the next part of the 21st Century.
This is a timely piece for us.

We also have a class set of the new illustrated version of 'Prisoners of Geography'.

We'll be exploring the Arctic and have Klaus Dodds' book, and will look at Russia's interests in this emerging resource frontier...


Will share the resources that I contribute and some outcomes in the next half term.

A few links from the 

Fair Observer - a new 'Cold War' in the Arctic?  




Is it time to draw borders on the Arctic Ocean? - an excellent Vox piece.
Russia has interests in the Arctic, and is building a fleet of icebreakers.



I've also started a new Pinterest board.

One real concern for many is that Russia is taking climate change seriously and preparing for the implications of it, spending many millions of pounds, whereas the USA has a climate denier in charge.... strategically a bad idea.