Still in its formative stages, LISD’s Arctic initiative is an interdisciplinary, multiphase project focusing on issues that include energy, natural resources and environmental concerns, strategic interests of the Arctic States, law and policy development, self-determination of indigenous peoples, and the global shipping trade. This Arctic region project will incorporate the perspectives of various groups, including state and nonstate actors as well as great, medium, and small powers. The multidimensional aspects of this study of the Arctic demand an interdisciplinary approach and will include collaborators from a variety of Princeton University departments as well as collaborators from other domestic and international organizations and universities.