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First and foremost, we thank the Canadian International Council (CIC) for granting us research fellowships to pursue these studies in 2008–9. Tamara Zur, Jordan Dupuis, Frances Cation, and Laura Sunderland organized speaking engagements, edited drafts, and supported us in myriad other ways. Hugh Segal and Bill Graham supported us during our fellowship year and graciously agreed to write forewords to this book. Jennifer Jeffs, the new executive director of the CIC, supported our plans to publish our studies with WLU Press and provided a generous subvention to make this book possible. Our thanks as well to David Bercuson, director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, and Terry Copp, director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, for supporting research programs on Arctic security and providing funds that made the publication of this book possible. Rob Huebert and Whitney Lackenbauer would also like to thank ArcticNet for its generous funding for their project on the evolving Arctic security environment that has facilitated their ongoing research. Peter Kikkert offered valuable comments that helped us frame the introduction, as did two anonymous reviewers. Lisa Beiler assisted with last-minute updates to the bibliography. At WLU Press, Ryan Chynces was instrumental in guiding us through the publication process quickly and efficiently. Franklyn Griffiths The author wishes to express his gratitude to the Canadian International Council for its generous support of the work that went into this study. Thanks go also to the many officials and private analysts who gave freely of their xxiii Acknowledgments knowledge and opinions in interviews that contributed markedly to whatever is of value here. Special acknowledgment is due to three individuals whose views on an early version of this paper were of singular value: Hans Corell, former Legal Counsel to the United Nations; Professor Willy Østreng, Scientific Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo; and Oran R. Young, Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California at Santa Barbara. Much obliged to all three, the author frees them of responsibility for any errors of commission or omission in what follows. Rob Huebert This study represents the culmination of research that I have been conducting since the end of the 1980s on the issue of Canadian Arctic sovereignty and security. It is therefore with sincere gratitude that I acknowledge the support of the Canadian International Council in awarding me one of their first fellowships to address this very important issue. I also wish to thank the CIC for awarding fellowships to my friends and colleagues, Franklyn Griffiths and Whitney Lackenbauer, to support their work in examining Arctic issues. Since the three of us seldom agree on issues related to the Arctic, the intellectual wrestling that we have engaged in has allowed me to focus and refine my own thinking on the subject. Within the CIC, I wish to extend my thanks and gratitude to Tamara Zur, Frances Cation, and Jordan Dupuis, who have, with the utmost professionalism and courtesy, performed an outstanding job in keeping me on schedule and providing administrative help. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewer for her/his helpful comments and to acknowledge the leadership shown by Senator Hugh Segal in guiding the “Arctic group,” as well as the encouragement that Denis Stairs and David Bercuson gave me to apply for the CIC fellowship. Thanks also to the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute for their support of my work on the evolving Arctic security environment that informs this study. My most profound appreciation goes to my wife, Shabnam, and our three children, Ben, Ethan, and Kishan, and my mother, Sophie Huebert. They are my most important inspirations in my work and my life, and their unwavering support was absolutely necessary for me to complete my commitments for the fellowship.While I know that none of them like my absences when I need to leave home, I also know that they all understand why I need to do it! xxiv Acknowledgments [3.235.139.122] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 19:32 GMT) P. Whitney Lackenbauer Thanks to the civil servants, politicians, Canadian Forces personnel, and northern residents who agreed to interviews or spoke informally with me over the past several years. Rob Huebert has been generous in his guidance and encouragement, even where we do not see eye to eye. Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, and Greg Poelzer shared ideas as we...