Canadian-U.S. relations in the Arctic borderlands

This background paper to the Pearson-Dickey Conference (Whitehorse, Yukon, May 1990) focusses on issues common to Alaska and the Yukon (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, potential pipelines, potential port sites on the Beaufort Sea coast, offshore petroleum developments and possible military developments) and attempts to assess the effectiveness of existing agreements and arrangements which address them.