Arctic Governance: Volume 3

Geir Honneland is Research Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute - one of the world's leading Arctic research bodies - and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Arctic University in Tromso, Norway. He has published widely in English on territory disputes and environmental factors in the Polar North. He gained his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2000 and is one of the most respected commentators in the field of Arctic Studies. Svein Vigeland Rottem is Director of the Polar Research Programme at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. He received his PhD in Arctic Political Science from the Arctic University at Tromso.Ida Folkestad Soltvedt is Researcher in Polar Law at the Fridtjdof Nansen Institute.

• IntroductionPart I Norway1 Norway’s Approach to the Arctic: Policies and DiscourseGeir Hønneland and Leif Christian Jensen2 Actors, Strategies and Networks in a New Bipolar Geopolitical Research- and Policy Agenda: The Case of NorwayLeif Christian Jensen and Svein Vigeland Rottem3 Soft Law, Solid Implementation? Norwegian follow-up of Arctic Council RecommendationsIda Folkestad Soltvedt4 How Arctic Science Travels: POPs, Norway and the Stockholm ConventionSvein Vigeland RottemPart II Russia5 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Rush for the North PoleGeir Hønneland6 Space and Timing: Why was the Barents Sea Delimitation Dispute Resolved in 2010?Arild Moe, Daniel Fjærtoft and Indra Øverland7 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Delimitation Line in the Barents SeaGeir Hønneland8 Russia’s Revised Arctic Seabed SubmissionØystein JensenPart III Asian States9 Asia in the Arctic: Policies, Stakes, and InvolvementOlav Schram Stokk10 Coming of age? Asian Arctic research, 2004–13Iselin Stensdal11 Much Ado about Something? China in Arctic Resource Development: Greenland and the Isua Iron-ore ProjectIselin Stensdal12 China’s Climate Policy: Does an Arctic Dimension Exist?Gørild HeggelundEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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