Recent Works on strategic and political issues:
The Scramble for the Arctic – Ownership, Exploitation and Conflict in the Far North by Richard Sales & Eugene Potapov (2010)
Polar Imperative – A history of Arctic Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant (2010)
Russia and the North edited by Elana Wilson Rowe (2009)
An earlier work from 1996:
The Arctic Frontier edited by R. St. J. MacDonald
A longer bibliography and more articles can be found on this site’s sister website: PolarMilitary