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The Antarctic Treaty at 50: Challenges and Future Directionauthor: peiqing.guo

Summary

During the last 50 years the Antarctic Treaty has effectively maintained peace on the Antarctic Continent as well as helped to promote international Antarctic scientific cooperation. The Antarctic Treaty now also serves as an approach to resolving international conflict, what is called the “Antarctic Model”. However, Antarctic politics have changed significantly in the 21st century and the traditional Antarctic order is facing severe challenges. The future of the Antarctic Treaty has aroused extensive interest in the international community. There are three different trends for the Treaty’s future direction: (1) that the Antarctic Treaty will disintegrate due to some signatories withdrawing; (2) that Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM) will look more and more like United Nations gatherings with more and more states acceding to the Treaty, which will enable Antarctica to become part of the common wealth of human beings; or, (3), that the Antarctic Treaty carries on as it is at present. Because the Antarctic Treaty promotes peace and science, and also because the principal members of the ATCM have tremendous political and economic power, it is likely that the existing order of the Antarctic Treaty will be the only realistic regime among the three above options in the foreseeable future.

Speakers

Ms. Helen Campbell SCADM Deputy Chief Officer, United Kingdom
Alan Cooper U.S. Geological Survey
Peter Barrett Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Robert Dunbar Environmental Earth Systems Science, Stanford University
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Dr. Martin Seigert Head of the School of GeoSciences
Nigel Wardell Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
Jon Childs U.S. Geological Survey
John Hocevar Oceans Director
Allison Kole Campaigns Assistant, Science and the Governance of International Commons
Igor Krupnik Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Scott E. Miller Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Martin Sayer NERC Facility for Scientific Diving, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom
Rafael Lemaitre Smithsonian Institution
Valery Lukin Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Antarctic Expedition
Robert A. McCabe
Anita Dey Nuttall Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta
Frank Rack ANDRILL Science Management Office, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Laura De Santis Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale GS, Italy
Richard Levy GNS Science, New Zealand
Tim Naish Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Tina Tin Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)
Rupert Summerson Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor David Walton Professor Emeritus, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Julie A Hambrook Berkman Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces
Dr. Michele Zebich-Knos Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

Schedule

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