Future security of the global Arctic
Subtitle: state policy, economic security, and climate
By: edited by Lassi Heininen
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781137468246
Subjects: International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Strategic aspects
Description: "The post-Cold War Arctic has seen a transformation from military tension and a focus on national security to a concern for environmental and human security. As a result of this, the globalized Arctic has a high level of peace and stability, maintained by international cooperation between the Arctic states, northern indigenous peoples, sub-national governments and local actors. There has also been a shift from environmental protection to economic activities and, consequently, states easily trump other interests. Now, in the Arctic, these challenges require fresh thinking on a local and global scale. Regional wars, the 'war on terror', and economic crises have posed new threats to Northern security order. "--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. High Arctic Stability as an Asset for Storms of International Politics: an Introduction; Lassi Heininen2. Security of the Global Arctic in Transformation: potential for changes in problem definition; Lassi Heininen3. Military Cooperation and Enhanced Arctic Security in the Context of Climate Change and Growing Global Interest in the Arctic; Michal Luszczuk and Jan Kochanowski4. Russian Sub-national Actors: Paradiplomacies in the European and Russian Arctic; Pertti Joenniemi and Alexander Sergunin5. The US Arctic Policy Agenda: The State Trumps Other Interests; Steve Lamy6. Ripple Effects: Devolution, Development and State Sovereignty in the Canadian North; Heather N. Nicol7. China and Japan in the Arctic: Economic Security and the Role of Foreign Policy for the 'Developmental State'; Aki Tonami8. The Arctic, Laboratory of the Anthropocene; Matthias Finger.