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Arctic Politics and Governance: Local, Regional and Global

Asia
Development
International Relations
National Identity
Regionalism
Security
Education
Climate Change
S05
Maria Ackrén
University of Greenland


Abstract

The Arctic has been a vast, remote and partly inaccessible territory. Climate change, however, means more accessibility of offshore installations and vessels of all kinds and makes the Arctic a regional and a global concern. Locally, indigenous peoples and other inhabitants of the Arctic have developed subsistence economies and self-government. Local communities are integrating into market economies and capitalist forms of production. Sub-state jurisdictions are claiming more self-determination and some even statehood. At the regional level, economic and political forums have been developed for deliberations and consensus decision-making between circumpolar indigenous peoples organisations and Arctic states (the Nordic countries, Russia, Canada and the US) especially within the Arctic councils and its sub-forums, working groups and taskforces. Globally, the Arctic today is attracting interest from non-Arctic states and NGOs in Europe, Asia and elsewhere claiming their interests and rights to participate in the activities in ad around the Arctic Council. These developments have created conflicts or tensions but also co-operations or agreements between very different actors and complicated grammars. We invite both conceptual, theoretical and empirical Papers within mainly three themes: - Nation or community building, state formation, economic and social developments, including trade and tourism, resource governance and multi-level governance issues. - Security risk management in relations to Arctic natural resource extraction (fisheries, mining, and energy), environmental politics and sustainability issues. - Educational capacity building and societal development.
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