Geopolitical tensions framing different industries in the European Arctic: aquaculture, forestry, mining, and tourism in question
Journal: Journal of Land Use Science
Year: 2024

Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine in early 2022 has brought geopolitics, particularly classical geopolitics, back into the political and economic discussions and decision-making. Discursive, as well as real-world change, has been rapid, as the turn of the 21st century was the time of globalisation and neoliberal ideology – the free movement of people, products, and services. However, in this paper, we argue that classical geopolitics has defined the development of Northern industries even befor