Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-3370-7 (ISBN)
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Including new and updated chapters on national approaches to the Arctic and the geopolitical power play that is unfolding, expert authors analyse the relations between China, Russia, and the West in the Arctic. They assess the role of NATO and the significance of critical minerals in the discussion around Greenland’s autonomy. Chapters cover the role of conferences in Arctic governance, and local governments’ participation in issues spanning politics, indigenous challenges, and the private sustainability certification of Arctic fisheries. With geopolitics taking centre stage in this new edition, contributors examine the impact of Russo-Chinese cooperation in the Arctic, as well as security dynamics and colonial legacies in the region.
Students and scholars in Arctic politics, environmental politics and law, and political geography and geopolitics will benefit from this Handbook’s invaluable insights. It is also an essential resource for policymakers, government officials, and NGOs involved in this key area.
Edited by Geir Hønneland, Research Professor, Andreas Østhagen, Research Director, Arctic and Ocean Politics, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Svein Vigeland Rottem, Senior Research Fellow, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
Contents
Preface xii
Introduction: from ‘the Age of the Arctic’ to ‘the Scramble for the Arctic’ and
beyond xiii
Geir Hønneland, Andreas Østhagen and Svein Vigeland Rottem
PART I INTERNATIONAL LEGAL AND GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS
1 The exploitation and management of marine resources in the Arctic: law,
politics, and the environmental imperative 2
Robin Churchill
2 Maritime limits and boundaries in the Arctic Ocean: agreements and
disputes 48
Clive Schofield, Ted L. McDorman, and I. Made Andi Arsana
3 State practice in the establishment of continental shelf limits beyond 200
nm in the Arctic Ocean 72
Øystein Jensen
4 Arctic marine mammals in international environmental law and trade law 87
Nigel Bankes and Elizabeth Whitsitt
5 Arctic governance after Ukraine: pros and cons of institutional complexity 117
Olav Schram Stokke
6 Fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic: globally significant 139
Alf Håkon Hoel
7 The role of discourse analysis in understanding spatial systems 151
E. Carina H. Keskitalo
8 Soft governance in the Arctic 164
Beate Steinveg, Svein Vigeland Rottem and Serafima Andreeva
9 Arctic Mayors’ Forum: local governments in Arctic governance 175
Iselin Németh Winther
10 Private sustainability certification of Arctic fisheries: lessons from a large-
scale and a small-scale fishery in the Northeast Atlantic 186
Geir Hønneland
PART II NATIONAL APPROACHES
11 Canadian sovereignty versus northern security: critiquing the persistence
of Canada’s colonial mental map of the Arctic 213
Lee-Anne Broadhead
12 Inuit foreign policy and international relations in the Arctic 231
Nadine C. Fabbi
13 Where East and West collide? Amidst Russia’s military resurgence,
America recalibrates its embrace of collaborative Arctic security 250
Barry Scott Zellen
14 Reluctant no more? The complexities of US Arctic security strategy 281
Andreas Østhagen, Pavel Devyatkin and Lillian Hussong
15 A strategic interest: understanding China’s Arctic approach 298
Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund
16 The European Union and the Arctic: a dedicated policy for a complex
space 314
Andreas Raspotnik and Adam Stępieę
17 Poland in the Arctic: assessing progress, prospects, and policy challenges 328
Michał Łuszczuk
18 Denmark’s Arctic awakening: how foreign and defence policy turned
North 341
Marc Jacobsen and Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
19 Norway’s Delicate Arctic Balancing Act 356
Andreas Østhagen
20 Arctic research: actors, priorities and drivers at national and international
levels 372
Serafima Andreeva and Geir Hønneland
PART III GEOPOLITICS
21 Arctic geopolitics and international relations 409
Andreas Østhagen
22 A decolonial approach to Arctic security and sovereignty 426
Gabriella Gricius
23 Friends in need? Russo–Chinese cooperation in the Arctic 447
Erdem Lamazhapov
24 The death of Arctic exceptionalism? Russian-Western cooperation before
and after the war in Ukraine 464
Pavel Devyatkin
25 Subsurface geopolitics: critical minerals, Greenlandic autonomy, and the
green transition 482
Mark Nuttall
26 Ambiguity in the Arctic: the geopolitics of bases on Svalbard in the first
half of the twentieth century 495
Olivia Wynne Houck
27 Russia’s Northern Fleet and the Arctic: still (re)militarising? 513
Jonas Kjellén
28 NATO in the Arctic: misunderstood and misrepresented 533
Alina Bykova, Paal Sigurd Hilde, Duncan Depledge, Andreas
Østhagen and P. Whitney Lackenbauer
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0353-3370-8 / 1035333708 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0353-3370-7 / 9781035333707 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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