Danita Catherine Burke is a senior research fellow based at the Center for War Studies and the international politics and border regions group at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. Dr. Burke was a Northern Scholars Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh while completing this book. Her recent publications include Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement (2023), WWF and Arctic Environmentalism: Conservationism and the ENGO in the Circumpolar North (2022), Diplomacy and the Arctic Council (2019), and International Disputes and Cultural Ideas in the Canadian Arctic (2018).