Contents: Preface PART I GEOPOLITICS AND STRATEGIC RESOURCES 1. Energy as a Developmental Strategy: Creating Knowledge-Based Energy Sectors in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Jens Christian Justinussen and Coco Smits 2. Strengthening US Arctic Policy through US-Russia Maritime Cooperation Walter A. Berbrick 3. Canada’s Arctic Agenda: Failing to Make a Case for Economic Development as an International Strategy in the Circumpolar North? Heather N. Nicol 4. Oil-Spill Response in the Russian Arctic Alexei Bambulyak, Are Kristoffer Sydnes and Maria Sydnes 5. Arctic Securitization and Climate Change Teemu Palosaari and Nina Tynkkynen 6. Subsurface Politics: Greenlandic Discourses on Extractive Industries Mark Nuttall 7. Arctic Energy Policy: Global, International, Transnational and Regional Levels Pami Aalto and Iida Jaakkola PART II LAW OF THE SEA 8. The Exploitation and Management of Marine Resources in the Arctic: Law, Politics and the Environmental Challenge Robin Churchill 9. Arctic Marine Mammals in International Environmental Law and Trade Law Nigel Bankes and Elizabeth Whitsitt 10. Maritime Limits and Boundaries in the Arctic Ocean: Agreements and Disputes Ted L. Mcdorman and Clive Schofield 11. The Seaward Limits of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles in the Arctic Ocean: Legal Framework and State Practice Øystein Jensen 12. Arctic Sovereignty and its Legal Significance for Canada Donald R. Rothwell PART III ARCTIC INSTITUTIONS AND SPECIFIC FIELDS OF CO-OPERATION 13. Oceans Governance, The Arctic Council and Ecosystem-Based Management Alf Håkon Hoel 14. Canadian Sovereignty Versus Northern Security: The Case for Updating our Mental Map of the Arctic Lee-Ann Broadhead 15. The Arctic Council Piotr Graczyk and Timo Koivurova 16. Institutional Complexity in Arctic Governance: Curse or Blessing? Olav Schram Stokke 17. Controlling the Long-Range Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) into the Arctic: Progressions and Political Parings Emily Mason and David L. VanderZwaag 18. From Ilulissat to Kiruna: Managing the Arctic Council and the Contemporary Geopolitics of the Arctic Klaus Dodds 19. How We Learned to Stop Worrying about China’s Arctic Ambitions: Understanding China’s Admission to the Arctic Council, 2004-2013 Matthew Willis and Duncan Depledge 20. Arctic Change Through a Political Reading Monica Tennberg 21. The Role of Discourse Analysis in Understanding Spatial Systems E. Carina H. Keskitalo PART IV NATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE ARCTIC 22. Russia Turns North, Again: Interests, Policies and the Search for Coherence Katarzyna Zysk 23. Norway’s Approach to the Arctic: Policies and Discourse Geir Hønneland and Leif Christian Jensen 24. Inuit Foreign Policy and International Relations in the Arctic Nadine C. Fabbi 25. The Kingdom of Denmark and the Arctic Annika Bergman Rosamond 26. Asian States and the Arctic: National Perspectives on Regional Governance P. Whitney Lackenbauer and James Manicom 27. The European Union’s Arctic Policy Njord Wegge 28. Where East and West Converge: The US Embrace of Collaborative Security for the Arctic Barry Scott Zellen 29. Evolution of Poland’s Approach Towards the Arctic: From International Scientific Cooperation to Science Diplomacy Michał Łuszczuk Index

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