Wilfrid Greaves is completing his PhD in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. His primary research examines changing conceptions of security and environmental change in the circumpolar Arctic, with a focus on indigenous peoples and government policy in the northern regions of Canada and Norway. P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a Canadian historian and frequent commentator on contemporary circumpolar affairs. He is a professor at St. Jerome’s University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/wilfrid-greaves-p-whitney-lackenbauer/rss en Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2016/03/23/arctic-sovereignty-and-security-updating-our-ideas https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/community/2016/03/23/arctic-sovereignty-and-security-updating-our-ideas Alternative definitions of “sovereignty” and “security” are emerging in the post-Cold War period. Scholars must update their interpretations of the words to be more inclusive if we are to reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of Arctic societies.