Diplomacy and the Arctic Council
Journal: McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks
Year: 2020

When the Russian-Ukrainian conflict over the Crimea region erupted in 2014, serious concerns were raised as to the implications and impacts of this conflict on Arctic cooperation. Through Ukraine is not in the Arctic region, it is a partner state of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the defence treaty alliance originally set up to counter the rise of communism and the security threat coming from the Soviet Union. All the Arctic states, with the exception of Russia, are either members or