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Past Volumes & Prior Intelligence
Every essay Arctic Ledger has published, organized by volume, plus the early research and working papers that established the analytical frameworks the journal now builds on.
Volume I, No. 3 · September–October 2026
The Arctic: The Global Competition of the High North and Its Consequences. Eleven essays. Read the full volume →
The Arctic
Volume I · No. 3 · September–October 2026 · Eleven essays
Europe's northward-shifting energy dependencies, propaganda around the Northern Sea Route and Polar Silk Road, the fading Malacca Strait monopoly, Arctic submarine warfare, US Coast Guard autonomy, orbital assets, subsea cable sovereignty, melting ice as opportunity, and the Inuit's exclusion from Arctic great-power politics.
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Volume I, No. 2 · September–October 2026
Ore, Ownership, and Opacity: Critical Minerals and China's Strategy of Concealed Control. Ten essays. Read the full volume →
Ore, Ownership, and Opacity
Volume I · No. 2 · September–October 2026 · Ten essays
The migration of chokepoint leverage from critical minerals into AI components, Egypt's undisclosed black-sand reserves, Norway's seabed reversal, laundered Congolese cobalt, Indo-Pacific nickel leverage, Central Asian resource access, India's processing gap, private security in extraction zones, deep-sea civil-military fusion, and sanctions on Chinese firms.
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Volume I · July–August 2026
Chokepoints, Corridors, and Concessions: China's Structural Statecraft Across Eurasia, the Americas, and the Indo-Pacific. Seven essays. Read the full volume →
Chokepoints, Corridors, and Concessions
Volume I · No. 1 · July–August 2026 · Seven essays
Deep-sea mining jurisdiction, dual circulation and civil-military fusion, Chinese AI standard-setting, Russo-Sino Arctic cooperation, dependency architecture in Latin America, mineral wealth and insurgency in Balochistan, and spatial vulnerability in Indonesia's nickel supply chain.
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Journal of Theories, Vol. I · August 2026
Thucydides's Trap, String Theory, Modelski's Table: An Analysis of Great Power Competition in the Modern Age. Three essays. Read the full issue →
Thucydides's Trap, String Theory, Modelski's Table
Journal of Theories · Vol. I · August 2026 · Three essays
A theoretical companion to Volume I: geopolitical string theory and the quantification of leverage, bello-economics and the probability of US–China war, and a revised chokepoint-cycle model completing the blank row in Modelski's long-cycle table.
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Prior Published Intelligence
Sample Writings & Early Research
The items below represent early foundational research, working papers, and prior published intelligence that informed the analytical frameworks Arctic Ledger now builds on.
Soft and Sharp Power: An Analysis of China's Asymmetric Warfare
Formerly published as: "The Asymmetry Doctrine"
Author: J. M. Lindstrom
Structural vulnerabilities, gray-zone dynamics, and non-military leverage mechanisms in modern great power rivalry — traced through educational exchange, digital platform reach, and cultural tourism between the United States and China, 2015–2025.
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The Liquid Ledger
Author: J. M. Lindstrom · Analytical Brief · May 2026
Freshwater scarcity, PLA expeditionary logistics, and China's hydro-infrastructure statecraft in the Middle East — how Gulf desalination dependency and maturing Chinese naval logistics converge structurally, without requiring coordination.
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The Pointillist Empire
Author: J. M. Lindstrom · Strategic Brief · April 2026
A three-pillar framework for maritime power projection: blue-water naval presence, Arctic icebreaker capability, and peacekeeping operations as a compound, legitimacy-based deterrent.
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The DRC Quota Regime and the Race for Cobalt Access
Author: J. M. Lindstrom · Analytical Brief · April 2026
How the DRC's 2026–27 cobalt export quota reshapes Western supply positioning, the China processing bottleneck, and India's emerging role as the strategic demand center for non-Chinese cobalt.
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