Review of Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The Role of Non-Arctic Actors (Edited by Akiho Shibata, Leilei Zou, Nikolas Sellheim, and Marzia Scopelliti)
Journal: The Northern Review
Year: 2020

For most of human history, the Arctic has primarily interested only those residing there or claiming sovereignty over portions of it. Yet climate change is making the region more accessible and "a centrepiece in and for global aff airs" (1). Accordingly, the Far North is also an increasingly contested space. Not in terms of territory and resources-widespread accounts of geopolitical struggle are largely contrived and unmoored from the "exceptional cooperation" that pervades northern relations (S