Introduction: the Arctic Council, Asian states and the global Arctic
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2020

This opening chapter explores how the admittance of Asian states as observers to the Arctic Council in May 2013 acted as a lightning-rod for analysis and commentary. Some commentators even spoke and wrote about ‘Asia eyes the Arctic’. The authors address the contested imaginaries and practices, and the more technical literatures on Arctic governance including work that has followed closely the evolution of the Arctic Council. The current and future intention of Asian stakeholders, and the spectr