Overview
- Covers highly relevant security issues in the High North
- Highlights the current geopolitical shifts in the region
- Examines competing resource claims and conflicts between Arctic states
Part of the book series: Frontiers in International Relations (FIR)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Shareholders. The Arctic Five
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Arctic Stakeholders
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Basics: Economies, Infrastructures and Law in the Arctic
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Between Cooperation and Confrontation: Dimensions of Arctic Geopolitics and Security
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About this book
Against the backdrop of climate change and tectonic political shifts in world politics, this handbook provides an overview of the most crucial geopolitical and security related issues in the Arctic. It discusses established shareholder's policies in the Arctic – those of Russia, Canada, the USA, Denmark, and Norway – as well as the politics and interests of other significant or future stakeholders, including China and India. Furthermore, it explains the economic situation and the legal framework that governs the Arctic, and the claims that Arctic states have made in order to expand their territories and exclusive economic zones.
While illustrating the collaborative approach, represented by institutions such as the Arctic council, which has often been described as an exceptional institution in this region, the contributing authors examine potential resource and power conflicts between Arctic nations, due to competing interests. The authors also address topics suchas changing alliances between Arctic nations, new sea lines of communication, technological shifts, and eventually the return to power politics in the area. Written by experts on international security studies and the Arctic, as well as practitioners from government institutions and international organizations, the book provides an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in geopolitical shifts and security issues in the High North.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Joachim Weber grew up in Hamburg and studied history, geography, public law and journalism at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany), Marburg (Germany) and Baylor-University (Texas, USA). He earned his M.A. with a study on German geopolitics in the world war period in Hamburg 1996. As officer or reserves, he took part in IFOR and SFOR missions in Croatia and Bosnia in 1996/97. He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 in the field of political and economic geography at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the Croatian transformation towards an independent state. He later taught political geography at several universities, among them Zagreb (Croatia), Bonn (Germany) and Akron (Ohio, USA). In 2002 he joined the German federal service and held positions at Federal Office for Disaster Protection (BBK), being co-founder of a M.Sc.-program on risk governance (KaVoMa) at University of Bonn. He has worked also in Ministry of Economic Development (BMZ) and in Ministry ofEconomics (BMWi) with responsibility for the German maritime defense industries. In 2017 he joined the Institute for Security Policy Kiel University (ISPK, Germany) as Senior Fellow. His ongoing research is on geopolitics in the Arctic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook on Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic
Book Subtitle: The High North Between Cooperation and Confrontation
Editors: Joachim Weber
Series Title: Frontiers in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45005-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45004-5Published: 26 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45007-6Published: 26 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45005-2Published: 25 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-9429
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9437
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 378
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Security Studies, Conflict Studies, Peace Studies, Regional Development