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New Arrival Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic 2nd ed

Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic 2nd ed

Author: Geir Honneland; Andreas Østhagen; Svein Vigeland Rottem
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035333707

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780857934734
Published In: January 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This timely Handbook explores how the Arctic has become a focal point in international relations in a manner unseen since the Cold War. Drawing on perspectives from international law, geopolitics, and other social sciences, this revised and expanded second edition provides an essential account of modern Arctic affairs.

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.

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

The exploitation and management of marine resources in the Arctic: law, politics, and the environmental imperative 2

Robin Churchill

Maritime limits and boundaries in the Arctic Ocean: agreements and disputes 48

Clive Schofield, Ted L. McDorman, and I. Made Andi Arsana

State practice in the establishment of continental shelf limits beyond 200nm in the Arctic Ocean 72

Øystein Jensen

Arctic marine mammals in international environmental law and trade law 87

Nigel Bankes and Elizabeth Whitsitt

Arctic governance after Ukraine: pros and cons of institutional complexity 117

Olav Schram Stokke

Fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic: globally significant 139

Alf Håkon Hoel

The role of discourse analysis in understanding spatial systems 151

E. Carina H. Keskitalo

Soft governance in the Arctic 164

Beate Steinveg, Svein Vigeland Rottem and Serafima Andreeva

Arctic Mayors’ Forum: local governments in Arctic governance 175

Iselin Németh Winther

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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

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Canadian sovereignty versus northern security: critiquing the persistence of Canada’s colonial mental map of the Arctic 213

Lee-Anne Broadhead

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Inuit foreign policy and international relations in the Arctic 231

Nadine C. Fabbi

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Where East and West collide? Amidst Russia’s military resurgence, America recalibrates its embrace of collaborative Arctic security 250

Barry Scott Zellen

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Reluctant no more? The complexities of US Arctic security strategy 281

Andreas Østhagen, Pavel Devyatkin and Lillian Hussong

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A strategic interest: understanding China’s Arctic approach 298

Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund

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The European Union and the Arctic: a dedicated policy for a complex space 314

Andreas Raspotnik and Adam Stępieę

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Poland in the Arctic: assessing progress, prospects, and policy challenges 328

Michał Łuszczuk

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Denmark’s Arctic awakening: how foreign and defence policy turned North 341

Marc Jacobsen and Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

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Norway’s Delicate Arctic Balancing Act 356

Andreas Østhagen

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Arctic research: actors, priorities and drivers at national and international levels 372

Serafima Andreeva and Geir Hønneland

PART III GEOPOLITICS

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Arctic geopolitics and international relations 409

Andreas Østhagen

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A decolonial approach to Arctic security and sovereignty 426

Gabriella Gricius

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Friends in need? Russo–Chinese cooperation in the Arctic 447

Erdem Lamazhapov

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The death of Arctic exceptionalism? Russian-Western cooperation before and after the war in Ukraine 464

Pavel Devyatkin

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Subsurface geopolitics: critical minerals, Greenlandic autonomy, and the green transition 482

Mark Nuttall

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Ambiguity in the Arctic: the geopolitics of bases on Svalbard in the first half of the twentieth century 495

Olivia Wynne Houck

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Russia’s Northern Fleet and the Arctic: still (re)militarising? 513

Jonas Kjellén

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NATO in the Arctic: misunderstood and misrepresented 533

Alina Bykova, Paal Sigurd Hilde, Duncan Depledge, Andreas Østhagen and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

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