Politics and Strategy

Improving International Cooperation on Arctic Search and Rescue

Enhancing international cooperation and increasing information sharing is required in order to develop Arctic search

The United Kingdom, Scotland and the Arctic

Scotland is the latest non-Arctic nation to claim it has exceptional interests in the region, with implications for the

Russia’s Arctic Strategy: An Analysis of the Role of Diplomatic, Cooperative, and Domestic Policies

Russia’s Arctic strategy is designed to foster broader acceptance for Russian military and economic actions in the

The Norwegian Svalbard Policy – Respected or Contested?

The goal of the Norwegian Svalbard policy is stability and predictability, but this policy is contested - not just by

The Arctic Security Constellation

Our Special Issue widened the debate on Arctic security and provided an “arctification” of securitization

What Kind of Nation State will Greenland be?

How will the prioritization of the Greenlandic, Danish, and English languages put Greenland on very different routes

Post-colonial governance through securitization?

Narrative analysis of the Danish-Greenlandic governance controversies on whether potential uranium exploitation is a

Regional Order in the Arctic: Negotiated Exceptionalism

Arctic regional order is exceptional as states have worked to negotiate an order of balance predicated on cooperation

Soft Securitization: Unconventional Security Issues and the Arctic Council

This article investigates how the Arctic Council uses security language and which issues it depicts as relevant to