
Nafisa Putri Zafira is an International Relations undergraduate at Diponegoro University with interests in Arctic affairs, geopolitics, and international security. She enjoys writing on contemporary global issues, particularly great-power competition, strategic narratives, and the evolving dynamics of international politics.
Beijing and Moscow are manoeuvring in the Arctic. But Washington has mastered a separate art: turning limited strategic ambition into existential alarm. When Donald Trump declared in January 2025 that…