Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction: a power perspective on Arctic governance
• Why power? And how is the concept applied here?
• How does this approach fit in? Intellectual traditions and knowledge gaps
• Regional Arctic institutions/legal frameworks/regimes
• Articulating and pursuing Arctic interests
• Discourse and representation
• Four propositions on power relations and the structure of the book
• Note on methods and use of theory
• 1 Arctic international relations: new stories on rafted ice
• Politics on rafted sea ice: a bird’s eye view of Arctic political actors
• Indigenous peoples and their organisations
• Commercial actors
• States and their representatives
• Scientists
• NGOs and their representatives
• Letting the lines cross: actors in Arctic governance today
• 2 The power politics of representation
• Framing for policy action: more than just pretty pictures
• Frame 1: a cooperative Arctic in rough winds
• The Arctic as a zone of peace
• Buffering a peaceful frame in cold geopolitical winds
• Frame 2: navigating global and regional framings of the Arctic
• Asian countries’ interests and global framing
• Receiving a global framing: Arctic states’ reactions
• Balancing global and regional framings
• Frame 3: business in Arctic governance
• Negotiating the Arctic Economic Council
• A broader debate over framing: conservation versus sustainable development
• Representations and the ‘constant work’ of maintaining power
• 3 Power positions: theorising Arctic hierarchies
• Why hierarchy?
• Circumpolar hierarchy in a satellite view: club status and resting great powers
• Leading in the Arctic
• Resting great powers
• Moving up? Norway and status-seeking in a circumpolar hierarchy
• Hierarchies in time: positing Arctic ‘pasts’ and Arctic ‘futures’
• Hierarchy and change
• 4 Establishing and navigating the rules of the road in Arctic diplomacy
• Norms of belonging, speaking and acting
• A large part of many different ‘Norths’: the Russian Arctic
• Large state, quiet voice in Arctic politics: 1997–2007
• Participation – small but growing
• Quiet, different proposals
• Willing partner in low-political cooperation
• High-level negotiator still receiving ‘aid’: 2007–2017
• Invigorated participation and some key differences
• A new era of high-level negotiations
• Dealing with historical trash
• Arctic governance – a social space, a malleable space
• 5 Non-state actors and the quest for authority in Arctic governance
• Authority in global governance
• Authority at the science–policy interface
• Who speaks for the Council?
• When does science become policy?
• When do you know enough?
• Authority at the Peoples–State interface
• Strong political representation in diplomacy, challenged in agenda-setting in the upstream
• Speaking for the living Arctic
• Calling states to account
• A civic epistemology of Arctic governance?
• Conclusion
• Power in Arctic cross-border cooperation
• Revisiting the book’s four propositions on power
• Further research
• References
• Index