Securitization of the Northwest Passage: The Sino-Japan Relationship and the Role of Reconciliation in the Opening of the Arctic to Transshipment of Commerce and the Exploitation of Resources
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Due to the ongoing retreat of the Arctic Icecap caused by global climate change, the once fabled “Northwest Passage” between Europe and Asia is now becoming a reality. Complicating matters is the fact that Russia, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Canada, and the United States all have various competing claims to the newly opening summer sea lanes and the newly accessible carbon resources that lie under the sea. Japan and China are two of the primary economic beneficiaries of these newly opened sea lanes and resources. However the history between these two nations presents an environment of mutual mistrust and competition. The geopolitics of transarctic shipment will bring these two nations into closer contact and expose economic and military vulnerabilities to the other. This paper will examine the potential for the Sino-Japanese relationship to move past its history into a period of reconciliation based on cooperation and the mutual need to securitize the Arctic and the fabled Northwest Passage for the economic benefit of both nations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".