Changing Arctic

Douglas C. Nord is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Umeå University, Sweden who is an established scholar in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. His areas of specialty include the foreign and northern development policies of Canada, the Nordic states and Russia as well as the United States. He has written extensively on the relations between the countries of the circumpolar north and on the emergence of the Arctic as a central concern of contemporary international politics.

• 1. An Introduction 2. Placing the Arctic within Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks 3. Efforts at Creating an Arctic Regime4. The Swedish Chairmanship5. The Project Unfolds6. Assessing the Accomplishments of the Swedish Chairmanship6. Considering the FutureBibliography