This recording is from “The US’ Emerging Arctic Policy and the Sino-Russian Response” which was an hour long webinar by Dr Tim Reilly on 12 March 2025.

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Some of the areas the talk addressed, were:

• NATO’s impact on the Arctic;
• The arrival of the BRICS in the region;
• The implications of confining China and now Russia in the Pacific Arctic;
• Hybrid sub-threshold level warfare throughout the emerging Eurasian Arctic;
• The instrumentalisation of climate frameworks for geopolitical ends;
• The morphing of the Sino-Russian relationship from a geoeconomic partnership in the Arctic to a strategic alliance in space.

Speaker

Dr Tim Reilly is an adviser to the Cabinet Office, FCO, and MoD on Arctic matters. He has been: an expert witness to various House of Lords/Commons’ Arctic Committees; and an Adviser to the 2-Star Commander of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a multinational force responsible for the High North. Tim now works with US Space Force on Arctic-related matters, and at Norway’s University of the North in Tromso. He remains an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge, where he took his PhD in Sino-Russian Geoeconomic Relations in the Arctic. He frequently appears in the written and broadcast media. Tim is a former Parachute Regiment officer and Russian speaker who trained in International Relations. He has worked for Shell as a government affairs adviser on Russia, as well as ExxonMobil and JKX Oil & Gas on Ukraine and the Caucasus. He now runs his own Arctic/Polar Consultancy.