Running:
2021 to 2024
Funder:
Norwegian Research Council
Partners:
Fridtjof Nansen Institute (lead), Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, High North Center for Business and Governance, King’s College London, Korea Maritime Institute, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies & University of Bucharest
OceanGov is a four-year research project led by by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute under the direction of project leader – and TAI Senior Fellow – Andreas Østhagen, with partner institutions across the world. The project focuses on developing academic understanding of politics and the maritime domain, specifically disputes around maritime space. It contributes to improving our understanding of specific disputes in changing regions and to apply these findings to improve our general understanding of governance over maritime space and maritime resources.
With a regional focus on the Arctic Ocean, the Black Sea, and the East China Sea, OceanGov identifies conditional propositions and trends explaining why some disputes at sea escalate whereas others are settled. Researchers and institutions involved in this project aim to provide in-depth study of ocean governance and international politics, linking region-specific findings with global governance trends more generally.
In this project, The Arctic Institute combines its expertise in international law, international relations, and political geography to contribute to several work packages that analyse maritime disputes in regional contexts and in the global order with a specific focus on the Arctic.