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• Author bio
• Series page
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF MAPS
• FOREWORD
• Preface to second edition
• PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
• INTRODUCTION
• Narrative and identity
• Identity and foreign policy
• From ‘the Age of the Arctic’ to ‘the Scramble for the Arctic’
• Russian talk, Arctic policy
• CHAPTER 1 RUSSIAN IDENTITY BETWEEN NORTH AND WEST
• Breathe in, hold your nose
• Ebullience, cold peace and pragmatism
• Our North, our future
• Wide souls and fairy-tale lives
• CHAPTER 2 THE RUSH FOR THE NORTH POLE
• All the way to the pole
• ‘The global fight against Canada in the Arctic’
• ‘The Arctic is our everything’
• Our ocean, our future, our foes
• CHAPTER 3 DELIMITATION OF THE BARENTS SEA
• Endless negotiations, big compromise
• ‘They’ll squeeze us out, it’ll be the end’
• Our common kitchen garden
• The principle of fairness, the ultimate betrayal
• CHAPTER 4 MANAGEMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
• Our common future
• Gentlemen’s agreements and NATO raids
• The runaway captain, the bucket on the mast
• Naive muzhik meets cunning Viking
• CHAPTER 5 REGION BUILDING, IDENTITY FORMATION
• Our common history
• In a Barbie world
• Separatists, beware
• Norgs and pomors
• CHAPTER 6 ARCTIC TALK, RUSSIAN POLICY
• Seated around the fire
• Enter the story-tellers
• Defending the other self
• In-between past and future
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX