New Publication: Arctic International Relations in a Widened Security Perspective
In a rapidly changing Arctic, there is a need to engage in a comprehensive investigation into what Arctic security means in the 21st century. The Special Issue of the journal Politik aims to widen the debate on Arctic security relations through a more comprehensive dialogue inclusive of the many different types of security, their interactions, and their challenges.
Each chapter provides one layer of the multimodal lens of Arctic security that, together, weave a complex web of change. This Special Issue therefore continues to move the discourse of polar security beyond – but not excluding – the conventional debates of military capabilities and state sovereignty towards a more comprehensive definition of security, including its interacting environmental, economic, political, health and cultural dimensions.
Table of contents:
- Marc Jacobsen & Victoria Herrmann, Introduction: Arctic International Relations in A Widened Security Perspective.
- Marc Jacobsen & Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Desecuritization as Displacement of Controversy: geopolitics, law and sovereign rights in the Arctic.
- Wilfrid Greaves & Daniel Pomerants, ‘Soft Securitization’: Unconventional Security Issues and the Arctic Council.
- Heather Exner-Pirot & Robert Murray, Regional Order in the Arctic: Negotiated Exceptionalism.
- Victoria Herrmann, Arctic Indigenous Societal Security at COP21: The Divergence of Security Discourse and Instruments in Climate Negotiations.
- Rasmus K. Rasmussen & Henrik Merkelsen, Post-colonial governance through securitization? A narratological analysis of a securitization controversy in contemporary Danish and Greenlandic uranium policy.
- Ulrik Pram Gad, What kind of nation state will Greenland be? Securitization theory as a strategy for analyzing identity politics.
- Ole Wæver, Afterword: Securitization and Security Complexes in and around the Arctic.
Marc Jacobsen & Victoria Herrmann (eds.)
Arctic International Relations in a Widened Security Perspective
Politik, vol. 20, No. 3 (2017)
Politik is an interdisciplinary journal that provides articles on politics based on diverse academic perspectives. It is published four times a year and hosted by the Royal Library - National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library.