GlobalArctic

Gunnar Rekvig is a Program Director at the Planning and Coordination Department of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He has a PhD in International and Regional Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He serves as the Deputy Director for the GlobalArctic project at the Geneva Center for Security Policy and is currently a Guest Professor at the University of Lisbon.Matthias Finger is a professor emeritus at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Geneva. He is currently a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and a full professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ).

• 1. Introduction.- Part I. Arctic governance.- 2. Alaska in U.S.-Russian Relations from the Alaska Purchase to the Russo-Ukrainian War.- 3. U.S. Arctic policy in the context of Russian capabilities and Chinese activities.- 4. Arctic Border governance in a post-invasion era: How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shifts Arctic borders.- 5. Back to the past? The Barents Euro-Arctic Region between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ Cold War.- 6. The Arctic in the era of global change: An international security prospective.- 7. From Neutrality and Peacemaking to Military Alignment – Finland’s Illusive Geopolitical Imagination.- 8. The Nordic Peace and Norway's Crisis Management - Historical Perspectives and Modern Challenges.- Part II. Arctic+ governance.- 9. Science Diplomacy and the People’s Republic of China’s Relationship with the Nordic Countries in the Arctic Region.- 10. Toward the Governance of Sustainable Arctic Science Cooperation.- 11. China’s evolving priorities and the North Sea Route: The Long Game.- 12. China in the Arctic Governance System in the New Cold War Era.- 13. A Shelf Approval Deconfliction Mechanism for Activities on the Overlapping Extended Continental Shelf Entitlements in the Central Arctic Ocean.- Part III. Global Governance of the Arctic.- 14. A Mediator’s Perspective: Reflecting on the obstacles and opportunities for renewing dialogue on the Arctic.- 15. Science Diplomacy As A Form Of Arctic Global Governance In The Age Of Geopolitical Turbulence.- 16. Enhancing Science Diplomacy for a Better Arctic Governance.- 16. On the BRICS of War: What future for the governance of the GlobalArctic?.- 17. Economy: a new Arctic, two sets of rules.- 18. The rotating wheel: a new cycle of pacific relations in the emerging Arctic and the role of the middle powers.