Status Research Director, Arctic Security Project; Editor, SI; Web Commando, NSA Dept Department National Security Affairs Contact bszellen@nps.edu Research Interests Arctic security; Tribal sovereignty; Geopolitics of climate change; Nuclear weapons strategy; Guerrilla warfare and terrorism; Philosophy of war; IR and strategic theory

Biography
Barry S. Zellen is a specialist on arctic security and circumpolar politics, with a keen interest in international relations theory and strategic studies. He lived in the Arctic region from 1988 until 2000, where he worked in the field of indigenous language preservation, managing several indigenous-language media organizations sponsored by the Northern Native Broadcast Access Program (NNBAP), in  the Government of Canada’s Department of Canadian Heritage. 

During his time in the Far North, Zellen served as General Manager of Northern Native Broadcasting, Yukon (NNBY); Executive Director of the Native Communications Society of the NWT (NCS-NWT); and Managing Editor of the Inuvialuit newspaper, Tusaayaksat, published by the Inuvialuit Communications Society (ICS). Zellen also published Cabin Fever, a regional newspaper serving the villages of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, from 1998-2000, and from 2000-08, he published the pan-northern news portal, TheSourdough.com. 

In 2001, Zellen founded TechnologyInnovator.com, an editorial and strategic communications consulting company specializing in web publishing, e-newsletters, internal communications, and editing. His clients ranged from blue-chip companies including HP and IBM to smaller start-ups and tech publications. In 2002, he became Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Correspondent for Intersec, and in 2003 became the author of HP's daily Competitive Intelligence in Action (CIA) Report, in which he analyzed news, events, and trends relating to enterprise technology, distributed to over 4,000 HP managers and employees daily. In 2004, Zellen started editing the Strategic Insights e-journal and became Web Commando" for the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. He also directs the Arctic Security Project at NPS, which examines the geostrategic implications of the polar thaw. 

Zellen is the author of Breaking the Ice: From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic (Lexington Books 2008), the first book in a multi-volume series from the Arctic Security Project, a long-term research project exploring the transformation of the Arctic region and its impact on international security. Zellen has also completed a sequel to Breaking the Ice, called On Thin Ice: The Inuit, the State and the Challenge of Arctic Sovereignty (Lexington Books 2009), which continues his discussion of Arctic sovereignty and the interplay of state and sub-state dynamics along the Arctic coast.  Zellen is also the author of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic (Praeger, Security and the Environment series, 2009) which examines the theoretical and strategic implications of a post-Arctic world as climate change, and in particular a polar thaw, transforms world geopolitics. 

He has also authored a four-volume book set on the rise and fall of the modern state, as imagined by political and strategic theorists across the ages, under contract with Praeger for release in early 2011: States of Mind: The Realist Tradition and Foundation of Western Order.In addition, he has authored a strategic biography of Bernard Brodie, America's Clausewitz: Bernard Bodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World and a work on technology and homeland security, 9/12: Restoring Order in the Age of Complex Warfare. 

Zellen was educated at Harvard, where he earned his B.A. in Government (1984) magna cum laude, and U.C. Berkeley, where he earned his M.A. in Political Science (1985). He has received various research grants and fellowships including a MacArthur Fellowship (1985-86), an Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation research fellowship (1986-87), and a Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security Northern Security Research Grant (1991-93). He has taught at Arctic College, the Center for Northern Studies, and Wesleyan University.

Articles

Strategic Insights/Culture & Conflict Review:

• Cold Snap: Hillary, Ottawa and the Inuit (April 2010)
• Tribe, State, and War (November 2009)
• GWOT Reconsidered (July 2009)
• Lessons from the Last Frontier: Tribe/State Conflict and the Modern World (April 2009)
• War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War (April 2009)
• Toward a Post-Arctic World (January 2009)
• Book Review: The Consolidation of Dictatorship in Russia: An Inside View of the Demise of Democracy (September 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (April 2008)
• Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins (February 2008)
• Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order (an interview with Michael T. Klare) (February 2008)
• Singapore Aims for Enhanced Information Awareness with RAHS (May 2007)
• Tribalism and the Future of Conflict (March 2007)
• Whither Victory in the War on Terror? (March 2007)
• America's Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate (May 2006)
• Preventing Armageddon II: Confronting the Specter of Agriterror (December 2004)
• Preventing Armageddon I: Enhancing America's Border and Port Security after 9/11 (November 2004)
• Rethinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and the War on Terror (January 2004)

Technology & Security:

• Doc Fraud: Revolving Door for Terrorists (Intersec, November/December 2009)
• Bracing for Bioterror (Intersec, October 2009)
• Missile Defense: Hope or Hype? (Intersec, September 2009)
• UAVs to the Rescue (Intersec, July/August 2009)
• Countdown to a Nuclear Iran (Intersec, June 2009)
• The Lingering Liquid Bomb Threat (Intersec, May 2009)
• The GWOT in Transition: A New Name for an Old Conflict (Intersec, April 2009)
• Handle with Care: Letter Bombs and Their Lethal Delivery (Intersec, March 2009)
• Securing the Olympics: Lessons of Beijing (Intersec, February 2009)
• Aviation Security at a Crossroads (Intersec, January 2009)
• Rising Chaos on the Southern Front (Intersec, December 2008)
• Order in the Court, or Murder in the Court? (Intersec, September 2008)
• Lessons of Iraq: Tribalism, State Collapse and the Emerging Sub-State Contours of the War on Terror (Intersec, July/August 2008)
• Rising Cabin Pressure: Despite major gains in aviation security since 9/11, in-cabin insecurity persists (Intersec, June 2008)
• Stadium Insecurity: America’s next 9/11 might be a mass-casualty attack of a sports stadium packed with fans (Intersec, May 2008)
• Tibetans Rise Up, as Hope Overtakes Fear on China’s Western Front (Intersec, May 2008)
• Pipeline Terror on the Rise across the Americas: But Connection to Global Terror War Unlikely (Intersec, April 2008)
• Outsourcing War: The privatization of war, which dates back to antiquity, is now back in favor (Intersec, March 2008)
• Southeast Asia's Proliferation Paradox: Without WMD Worries, Small Arms Present Big Proliferation Challenge (Intersec, Feb 2008)
• Document Fraud and Technology, a Double-Edged Sword (Intersec, January 2008)
• China Rising: Will economic growth transform China from economic partner to strategic adversary? (Intersec, September 2007)
• Cold Front: As accelerated global warming reveals hidden riches beneath polar sea, new conflicts heat up (Intersec, July/August 2007)
• Olympic Security in the Age of Mass Terror (Intersec, June, 2007)
• Resource Conflicts on the Rise: Strategic competition for natural resources rapidly redefines the world order (Intersec, May 2007)
• Mitigating the Dangers of Strategic Surprise: Singapore rises to the occasion with RAHS (Intersec, April 2007)
• Whither Victory in the War on Terror? (Intersec, March 2007)
• After Katrina: Confronting the Business Continuity Challenge (Intersec, February 2007)
• Combating Identity Theft: Rise in cyber-crime demands a coordinated response (Intersec, January 2007)
• In Post-Coup Thailand, Generals Quickly Change Course as Southern Insurgency Intensifies (Intersec, December 2006)
• The North Korean Missile Mess: DPRK’s July 4th Tests Generate Divergent Responses from East and West (Intersec, September 2006)
• The Northern Front in the War on Terror: Alaska Pipeline Security after 9/11 (Intersec, June 2006)
• America’s Southern Front: Immigration, Homeland Security, and the Border Fencing Debate (Intersec, May 2006)
• Securing the DC Metro (Intersec, April 2006)
• Truck Bombing Shifts into High Gear (Intersec, March 2006)
• The Axis of Evil Revisited (Intersec, February 2006)
• ‘Peace is Hell’: Behind the Bombs of Basra (Intersec, January 2006)
• Nuclear Terrorism: Re-Thinking the Unthinkable after 9/11 (Intersec, October 2006)
• Confronting the Specter of Agriterror (Intersec, December 2004)
• Enhancing America's Border & Port Security after 9/11 (Intersec, November 2004)
• Warrior Philosophers to the Rescue (Intelligence & Warning America, May 2004)
• Technology Tames the 'Scariest Place on Earth' (Intersec, June 2003)
• 'En-Gulfed' by War: A Tragedy in Three Acts (Intersec, December 2002)
• Border Security and the War on Terror (Intersec, September 2002)

The Arctic:

• Cold Front: A Year after the Inuit Re-Assert their Sovereignty, Washington Takes Their Side (Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No. 3, Spring 2010)
• Clan, the State, and War: Lessons from the Far North (Joint Forces Quarterly, July 2010)
• Toward North Corps, Journal of Northern Studies (Spring 2010)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, The Tundra Telegraph (April 6, 2010)
• Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy, The Tundra Telegraph (March 22, 2010)
• The Inuit and the State: Rumble for the Arctic, Ester Republic (March 2010)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 2, The Ester Republic (February 2010)
• The Inuit, the State, and the Battle for the Arctic, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Winter/Spring 2010, 57-64)
• The Arctic Land Claims Journey, Part 1, The Ester Republic (January 2010)
• From Climategate to Copenhagen, Alaska Report (Dec 17, 2009)
• Opportunity in a Post-Arctic World, Juneau Empire (Dec 13, 2009)
• The End of the World as We Know It? A Q&A with Barry Zellen on Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom, Alaska Report (December 6, 2009)
• Arctic Spring, The Ester Republic (December 2009)
• Time for a Circumpolar Peace Corps Program to Help Arctic Achieve Full Potential, Alaska Report (November 26, 2009)
• Olympic Torch's Journey Warms Northern Communities, in the Victoria Times Colonist, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal,Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Canada.com and GlobalTV.com (November 11-12, 2009)
• Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy, The Ester Republic (November 2009)
• Torch Has Reinforced Unity Across a Vast Land, The Whitehorse Star (November 9, 2009)
• An Ice-Free Boom, The Financial Post (October 27, 2009)
• Arctic Lessons: An Interview with Barry Scott Zellen (American Chronicle, May 26, 2008)
• The Upside of Climate Change (News North, May 1, 2008)
• On Thin Ice: As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (The Ester Republic 10, No. 5 (May 2008))
• We Should Warm to the Idea of Melting Poles (The Globe and Mail, April 28, 2008)
• As Climate Change Melts Polar Ice, a New World Emerges (Alaska Report, April 20, 2008)
• Media and Aboriginal Culture: An Evolving Relationship (Cultural Survival Quarterly 22, No. 2 (July 1998))
• Surf’s Up: NWT Communities Await a Tidal Wave of Electronic Information (Cultural Survival Quarterly 21, No. 4 (April 1998))
• Aboriginal Culture Breathes Fresh Air: CKLB tastes assimilation and fights back (Interadio, January 1998)
• Land Claim’s Hope and Promise Have Vanished (Whitehorse Star, June 5, 1994)
• The Doublespeak Of Yukon Bureaucrats (Whitehorse Star, August 27, 1993)
• The Charlottetown Accord: Inuvialuit Say YES, But Canada Says NO! (Tusaayaksat, Oct 31, 1992)
• Industrial Development: How high a price? (Tusaayaksat and The Hay River Hub, October 1992)
• One Arctic, One future? (Arctic Circle Magazine, September 1992)
• The Native Sovereignty Storm (Tusaayaksat, August 1, 1992)
• Risks and Promises in the New North (The Globe and Mail, May 28, 1992)
• Inuvialuit Propose Regional Government for the ISR (Tusaayaksat, Dec 6, 1991)

In the News:

• Warships Alone Won't Solve This Problem, by Mike Peters, in China Daily, January 23, 2010
• Interview with Barry Zellen, author of On Thin Ice, on the John Batchelor Show, WABC News Radio, January 23, 2010
• Kina Vil Ha Sin Del Av Nordomradene, by Stig Nora, in Mandag Morgen (Monday Morning), January 11, 2010
• Is Doom Ahead, or Opportunity, in China Daily, December 2, 2009
• Pirates of the Arctic?, by Mike Peters, in First Alaskans, April/May 2009
• NPS Hosts Conference on Impact of Climate Change on Arctic Region, Inside the Navy, December 15, 2008
• Panel Looks at Ramifications of Arctic Meltdown," Monterey Herald, December 10, 2008
• Climate Change Could Warm Arctic Economy, by Mike Peters, in The Arctic Sounder, October 16, 2008
• Breaking the Ice provides example for other cultures, by Kaitlynn Jackson, The Northern Light, October 14, 2008
• Looking for a Tropical Vacation? Try the Arctic Sea, Interview on The Patt Morrison Show, KPCC 89.3, Long Beach, CA, July 2, 2008
• Wayland Resident Shares Stories of the Arctic, by Amelia Andrade, The Town Crier, May 1, 2008
• It's The End of the World as We Know It, by James Hrynyshyn, Island of Doubt, April 30, 2008
• Geopolitics of Arctic Climate Change, Interviewed on The World Today, Vancouver, BC, April 29, 2008
• The Meltdown by Paul Abelsky, Russia Profile, June 5, 2007
• That Doesn't Work at the Hotel, by Christopher Elliott, New York Times, September 7, 2004
• Armageddon Back on the Table: U.S. ratchets up debate on ‘usable’ nuclear weapons, by Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, Nov 16, 2003

Scholarship Cited In:

• Valerie Alia, The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication, Berghahn Books 2010
• Martin Edwin Andersen, Peoples of the Earth: Ethnonationalism, Democracy & the Indigenous Challenge in "Latin" America, Lexington Books, 2010
• Mira Burri-Nenova, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, Digital Technologies and Traditional Cultural Expressions: A Positive Look at a Difficult Relationship, International Journal of Cultural Property 17, No. 1 (2010), 1-31.
• Roger G. Barry, Distinguished Professor of Geography Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Review of Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom. The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic, Journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 42, No. 1 (February 2010)
• Peter F. Johnson, Arctic Energy Resources and Global Energy Security, Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 12, No. 2 (2010)
• Andrew E. Lieberman, Taking Ownership: Strengthening Indigenous Cultures and Languages, LearnLink, Academy for Educational Development, Undated
• Arabinda Acharya, Targeting Terrorist Financing: International Cooperation and New Regimes (Contemporary Terrorism Studies), Routledge, 2009
• Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty, Arctic Sovereignty and Governance, Winter 2009, Canadian Studies Center, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
• John Donihee, Land Claim Agreements and the North to 2030, Session No. 3 Conference Pager, 2030 North National Planning Conference, Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, June 1, 2009
• Amy Fletcher, A look back at 2009 releases, Juneau Empire, December 10, 2009
• J. S. Onésimo Sandoval and Gloria Ortiz, Toward a U.S. Analytic Latino Concept, Journal of Latino-Latin America Studies 3, No. 3(2009), jollas.metapress.com/index/C2L0J207Q2052105.pdf
• Melissa Bert, Captain, USCG, John Chaddic, FBI, and Brian D. Perry, Colonel, USA, The Arctic in Transition: A Call to Action, Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce, October, 2009
• L. Anne Enke, Accusations of Obama 'Climate Shame' & 'New Holocaust' End, Anne of Carversville, December 18, 2009
• John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher, Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives, Texas Tech University, December 2008
• Mira Burri-nenova and Christoph Beat Graber, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
• Christoph Beat Graber, Mira Burri-Nenova, eds., Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008
• Matthew Padilla, Preparing for the Unknown: The Threat of Agroterrorism, Sustainable Development Law & Policy Journal 9, No. 1 (Fall 2008).
• Mira Burri-Nenova, The Long Tail of the Rainbow Serpent: New Technologies and the Protection and Promotion of Traditional Cultural Expressions, World Trade Institute, University of Bern Law School, November 25, 2008
• Christopher A. Shaw, Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games, New Society Publishers, 2008
  Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation Theory, Master's Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, December 2007
• Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini, Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
• Karen Guttieri, Jessica Piombo, Interim governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy?‎ U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007
• Ritva Levo-Henriksson, Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication (Indigenous Peoples and Politics), Routledge, 2007
• The National Security Implications of Climate Change, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, September 27, 2007
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Working Papers 41, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore October 16, 2007
• LTC Irvin Lim Fang Jau, Comprehensive maritime domain awareness: an idea whose time has come, Pointer: Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces 33, No. 3 (2007) 
• Aeneas R. Gooding, Agricultural Terrorism (Agroterror) and Escalation, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 2007.
• Philip Joseph, American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age, Louisiana State University Press, 2006
• LTC Trent A. Pickering, USAF, A Nuclear Dilemma: Korean War Déjà vu, Master's Thesis, US Army War College, March 2006
• Ryan Petersen, Be Our Guest, but Please Don't Stay: A Comparison of US and German Immigration, Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law 14, No. 1 (2006-07)
• David O. Meteyer, The Art of Peace: Dissuading China from Developing Counter Space Weapons, Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2005
• Christian Enemark, Disease Security in Northeast Asia: Biological Weapons and Natural Plagues‎, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2004
• Wade L. Huntley, Unthinking the Unthinkable: US Nuclear Policy and Asymmetric Threats, Strategic Insights III, Issue 2 (February 2004)
• Frederick J. Moll, The Legal & Technological Advantages of a North American Perimeter In the War Against Terrorism, Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter 2 (Spring 2004)
• Neil Blair Christensen, Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2003
  Dean C. Alexander, Business Confronts Terrorism: Risks and Responses, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
• Dave McComb, Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Manager's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003
• Michael J. Mazarr, Information Technology and World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
• Maximilian C. Forte, Adelaide University (Australia), We are not Extinct: Caribbean Indigeneity and the Internet, Sincronía, Spring 2002, sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/CyberIndigen.htm
• Andrew E. Lieberman, Bringing Mayan Language and Culture Across the Digital Divide,” Academy for Educational Development, Profiles in Developmenty, TechKnowLogia, July-September 2002
• Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O'Day, Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, MIT Press, 2000
• Valerie Alia, Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People, University of British Columbia Press, 2000
• Magdalena A.K. Muir, Analysis of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement and marine protected areas under the Oceans Act, Report Prepared for the FJMC, International Energy, Environmental and Legal Services Ltd, Calgary, 1997
• Joël Demay, The Persistence and Creativity of Canadian Aboriginal Newspapers, Canadian Journal of Communication 18, No 1 (1993)
• Joël Demay, Clarifying Ambiguities: The Rapidly Changing Life of the Canadian Aboriginal Print Media, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XI, 1 (1991): 95-112