Selected Publications
The Arctic and World Order
Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton, Editors
Jason C. Moyer, Associate Editor
The Arctic, long described as the world’s last frontier, is quickly becoming our first frontier—the front line in a world of more diffuse power, sharper geopolitical competition, and deepening interdependencies between people and nature. A space of often-bitter cold, the Arctic is the fastest-warming place on earth. It is humanity’s canary in the coal mine—an early warning sign of the world’s climate crisis.
The Arctic “regime” has pioneered many innovative means of governance among often-contentious state and non-state actors. Instead of being the “last white dot on the map,” the Arctic is where the contours of our rapidly evolving world may first be glimpsed. In this book, scholars and practitioners—from Anchorage to Moscow, from Nuuk to Hong Kong—explore the huge political, legal, social, economic, geostrategic and environmental challenges confronting the Arctic regime, and what this means for the future of world order.
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Authors include:
| Mia M. Bennett | Henry P. Huntington | J. Ashley Roach |
| Lawson W. Brigham | P. Whitney Lackenbauer | Kristina Spohr |
| Michael T. Bravo | Andreas Østhagen | Scott R. Stephenson |
| Bert De Jonghe | Inuuteq Holm Olsen | Alexander N. Vylegzhanin |
| Ryan Dean | Marc Lanteigne | Kang Yang |
| Daniel S. Hamilton | Nengye Liu | Oran R. Young |
| Lassi Heininen | Arild Moe | |
| Victoria Herrmann | Ernie Regehr |
List of Chapters:
Introduction – From Last Frontier to First Frontier: The Arctic and World Order by Kristina Spohr and Daniel S. Hamilton
Chapter 1 – Shifting Ground: Competing Policy Narratives and the Future of the Arctic by Oran R. Young
Chapter 2 – Conservation in the Arctic by Henry P. Huntington
Chapter 3 – Greenland, the Arctic, and the Issue of Representation: What is the Arctic? Who Has a Say? by Inuuteq Holm Olsen
Chapter 4 – A Tipping Point for Arctic Regimes: Climate Change, Paradiplomacy, and a New World Order by Victoria Herrmann
Chapter 5 – Russia and the Development of Arctic Energy Resources in the Context of Domestic Policy and International Markets by Arild Moe
Chapter 6 – Governance and Economic Challenges for the Global Shipping Enterprise in a Seasonally Ice-Covered Arctic Ocean by Lawson Brigham
Chapter 7 – Climate Change and the Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistics, Governance, and Wider Geo-economic, Societal and Environmental Impacts by Mia M. Bennett, Scott R. Stephenson, Kang Yang, Michael T. Bravo, and Bert De Jonghe
Chapter 8 – Military Infrastructure and Strategic Capabilities: Russia’s Arctic Defense Posture by Ernie Regehr
Chapter 9 – Freedom of the Seas in the Arctic Region by J. Ashley Roach
Chapter 10 – Constant and Changing Components of the Arctic Regime by Alexander N. Vylegzhanin
Chapter 11 – The U.S.-Canada Northwest Passage Disagreement: Why Agreeing to Disagree Is More Important Than Ever by Suzanne Lalonde
Chapter 12 – Power, Order, International Law, and the Future of the Arctic by Nengye Liu
Chapter 13 – The ‘Regime’ Nature of the Arctic: Implications for World Order by Lassi Heininen
Chapter 14 – Arctic Exceptionalisms by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Ryan Dean
Chapter 15 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Levels of Arctic Geopolitics by Andreas Østhagen
Chapter 16 – Inside, Outside, Upside Down? Non-Arctic States in Emerging Arctic Security Discourses by Marc Lanteigne
Reviews
- Ocean Yearbook 36, Stefan Kirchner, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
- A New Guide to the Heating Arctic, Cornell Overfield, Lawfare
