Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security [Book]

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Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security

By Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Marc Lanteigne, Horatio Sam-Aggrey

Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security

Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security

Book Description

The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security offers a comprehensive examination of security in the region, encompassing both state-based and militarized notions of security, as well as broader security perspectives reflecting debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies.

Since the turn of the century, the Arctic has increasingly been in the global spotlight, resulting in the often invoked idea of “Arctic exceptionalism” being questioned. At the same time, the unconventional political power which the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples hold calls into question conventional ideas about geopolitics and security. This handbook examines security in this region, revealing contestations and complementarities between narrower, state-based and/or militarized notions of security and broader security perspectives reflecting concerns and debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies.

The volume is split into five thematic parts:

• Theorizing Arctic Security

• The Arctic Powers

• Security in the Arctic through Governance

• Non-Arctic States, Regional and International Organizations

• People, States, and Security.

This book will be of great interest to students of Arctic politics, global governance, geography, security studies, and International Relations.

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Table of Contents

1 Understanding Arctic security: what has changed? What hasn’t? | Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Marc Lanteigne, and Horatio Sam-Aggrey

2 The Arctic peace projection: from Cold War fronts to cooperative fora | Alan K. Henrikson

PART I: Theorizing Arctic security

3 Applying conventional theoretical approaches to the Arctic | Barbora Padrtova

4 Assessing security governance in the Arctic |Andrew Chater, Wilfrid Greaves, and Leah Sarson

5 Arctic security in international security | Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen

6 Security as an analytical tool: human and comprehensive security approaches to understanding the Arctic | Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

7 Indigenous security theory: intersectional analysis from the bottom up | Rauna Kuokkanen and Victoria Sweet

8 Energy security in the Arctic | Magnus DeWitt, Hlynur Stefánsson, and Ágúst Valfells

9 Environmental security in the Arctic: shades of grey? | Horatio Sam-Aggrey and Marc Lanteigne

10 Economic security: employment policy needs for rural and remote communities | Gordon B. Cooke and Bui K. Petersen

PART II: The Arctic powers: The Arctic powers: “Arctic Five” and “Arctic Eight” 

11 Arctic security perspectives from Russia | Alexander Sergunin

12 Arctic security: the Canadian context | Heather Exner-Pirot and Rob Huebert

13 US security policy in the American Arctic | Michael T. Corgan

14 Security perspectives from Norway | Kristian Åtland

15 Denmark and Greenland’s changing sovereignty and security challenges in the Arctic | Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

16 Small state, big impact?: Iceland’s first National Security Policy | Page Wilson and Auður H. Ingólfsdóttir

17 Security perspectives from Finland: an Arctic case | Lassi Heininen

18 Security perspectives from Sweden | Niklas Eklund

PART III Security in the Arctic through governance

19 The Arctic Council: soft actions, hard effects? | Piotr Graczyk and Svein Vigeland Rottem

20 Science diplomacy and the Arctic | Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen

21 Geopolitics and international law in the Arctic | Bjarni Már Magnússon and Charles H. Norchi

22 Geopolitics, security, and governance | Klaus Dodds

23 Security issues in the Svalbard area | Tobjørn Pedersen

24 Arctic coast guards: why cooperate? | Andreas Østhagen

25 Legal reform, governance, and security in the Russian Arctic | Aytalina Ivanova and Gail Fondahl

PART IV: Non-Arctic states, regional, and international organizations

26 Considering the Arctic as a security region: the roles of China and Russia | Marc Lanteigne

27 Japan and Arctic security | Wrenn Yennie-Lindgren

28 Security aspects in EU Arctic policy | Adele Airoldi

29 NATO, the OSCE, and the Arctic region: European security organizations and the High North | Benjamin Schaller and Horatio Sam-Aggrey

PART V: People, states, and security

30 Indigenous peoples | Wilfrid Greaves

31 Human security, extractive industries, and Indigenous communities in the Russian North | Florian Stammler, Kara K. Hodgson, and Aytalina Ivanova

32 The role of indigenous local knowledge (ILK) in enhancing Indigenous security in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada | Horatio Sam-Aggrey

33 Gender and intersectional approaches to security in the Arctic | Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, and Fern Wickson

34 Food security across the circumpolar region | Kamrul Hossain, Thora M. Herrmann, and Dele Raheem 

35 The widening spectrum of Arctic security thinking | Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv and Marc Lanteigne

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