As the Arctic Ice Melts, Could a New Kind of Cold War Be Coming?

In Episode 37 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen examines the potential for climate change to open up new conflicts in the arctic:

Until recently, the eight nations whose borders creep into the icy Arctic haven’t had much of a reason to fight over this forbidding landscape. But as climate change melts the ice and opens up access to all kinds of precious resources, the United States is preparing for the possibility of conflict. So how will the U.S. defend its interests in a place where most of us have never set foot?

Listen to the episode here, and see the full set of episodes here.