Full Description
How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at broad questions of governance and security.
The author challenges the view that the Arctic is a passive space which is the focus of competitive advances from superpowers, arguing that it is more correctly understood as a dynamic pluriverse. Drawing on international law, international relations and diplomacy, this is an important re-assessment of the Arctic and its position in geo-politics.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Return of the Großraum
3. A Particularly Weighty Idiom
4. Terra Nullius, Arctic Exceptionalism, and the Jus Publicum Arcticus
5. Actors and Actorless Threats: Russia and the Tectonic Shift in the Arctic
6. Russia and Eurasia
7. The NATO Lake and the Baltic-Arctic Galaxy
8. Russia's Security Dilemma
9. China's Polar Pivot
10. The Brooding Arctic
