Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic

Akiho Shibata is a Professor of International Law and Director, Polar Cooperation Research Centre (PCRC) at Kobe University, Japan.Leilei Zou is a Professor at Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.Nikolas P. Sellheim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Finland. Marzia Scopelliti is a PhD candidate in Law at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

• ContentsIllustrationsContributorsAcknowledgementsAcronyms An Ocean in the Making: Non-Arctic Actors and the Emerging Arctic Legal Orders AKIHO SHIBATA, LEILEI ZOU, NIKOLAS SELLHEIM & MARZIA SCOPELLITIPart I – Setting the Contexts The Current and Future Role of Non-Arctic States in Arctic GovernanceTIMO KOIVUROVA The Rise of Asia and Arctic Legal Order-making: Political-Economic SettingsAKI TONAMI Japan’s Role in Formation and Strengthening of Arctic Legal OrdersKEIJI IDE China’s Arctic Policy White Paper and Its Influence on the Future of Arctic Legal DevelopmentsEGILL THOR NIELSSON & BJARNI MAR MAGNUSSON Part II – People(s) in the Arctic Our Homeland: Arctic Indigenous Peoples’ Perspective of Non-Arctic StatesDALEE SAMBO DOROUGH Sustaining a Conservationist Agenda? NGO-Influence on Arctic Sealing, Whaling and Hydrocarbon RegimesMARZIA SCOPELLITI & NIKOLAS SELLHEIMPart III – Arctic Marine Legal Order-making The Five-plus-five Process on Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Negotiations: Reflecting Interests of Arctic and Non-Arctic ActorsJOJI MORISHITA Participation in the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries AgreementERIK MOLENAAR10. The Role of Transnational Knowledge Networks and Epistemic Communities in Arctic Shipping Governance RASMUS GJEDSSØ BERTELSEN11. Russia’s Legislative Development Pertaining to the Northern Sea Route and Its Interaction with Russian-Sino Arctic CooperationLEILEI ZOUPart IV – The Universality of Science and the Arctic Council12. The Arctic Science Cooperation Agreement: A Perspective from Non-Arctic ActorsAKIHO SHIBATA State Observers and Science Cooperation in the Arctic Council: Same Same But Different? SEBASTIAN KNECHT & JENNIFER SPENCE 14. China in the Arctic Council: Existing Problems and Prospective Solutions YUANYUAN REN Appendix Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, signed by the eight Arctic states on 11 May 2017, entered into force on 23 May 2018Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean, signed by Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, the United States of America and the European Union on 3 October 2018Index