International Politics in the Arctic

Contested Borders, Natural Resources and Russian Foreign Policy

Geir Hønneland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-898-9 (ISBN)

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As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes, the territory is becoming a flashpoint in world affairs. New trade routes, cutting thousands of miles off journeys, are available, and the Arctic is thought to be home to enormous gas and oil reserves. The territorial lines are new and hazy. This book looks at how Russia deals with the outside world vis a vis the Arctic. Given Russia's recent bold foreign policy interventions, these are crucial issues and the realpolitik practiced by the Russian state is essential for understanding the Arctic's future.Here, Geir Honneland brings together decades of cutting-edge research - investigating the political contexts and international tensions surrounding Russia's actions. Honneland looks specifically at 'region-building' and environmental politics of fishing and climate change, on nuclear safety and nature preservation, and also analyses the diplomatic relations surrounding clashes with Norway and Canada, as well as at the governance of the Barents Sea. The Politics of the Arctic is a crucial addition to our understanding of contemporary International Relations concerning the Polar North.

Geir Honneland is Research Director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Arctic University in Norway. He has published widely in Norwegian and in English on territory disputes and environmental factors in the Polar North. He gained his PhD from the University of Oslo in 2000 and is one of the most respected commentators in the field of Arctic Studies.

Part I Background
Introduction
1. Identity Formation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region
Introduction: The Creation of the Barents Region
The Region-building Approach
Self and Other in Identity Formation
Alleged We-hood: The Return from a Historical Parenthesis
The Fragility of We-hood
‘The Cultural Counter-argument’
‘The Identity of Contrasts’
Conclusion
Part II Environmental Discourse in the European Arctic
2. Fish Discourse: Norway, Russia and the Northeast
Arctic Cod
Introduction
The Concept of Discourse Analysis 28
The Study of Environmental Discourse 30
Scientific Recommendations and Established
Quotas Since 1990 33
Defining Major Discourses 34
Conclusion 45
3. East Meets West: Deliberations on the Environment 48
Introduction 48
The Study of Environmental Discourse 49
Environmental Issues in the European Arctic 51
Defining Major Discourses 53
Brokering Scientific Knowledge 63
Storylines and Metaphors 65
Embeddedness and Discourse Classification 66
Conclusion 69
Part III Implementing International Environmental
Agreements in the Russian North
4. From Air Pollution Control to Nuclear Safety:
Why Implement? 75
Introduction 75
Implementation: The ‘What’s, ‘Why’s and ‘How’s 76
What’s the Problem? 80
What’s to be Implemented? 83
Implementation Performance and Target Compliance 86
Implementation Activities 87
Discussion 93
Conclusion 99
5. Implementing Global Nature Protection Agreements 102
Introduction 102
The Global Nature Protection Regimes 104
Implementation of the Agreements in Russia 106
Domestic Implementation Activities 113
Conclusion 122
Part IV Combating Communicable Diseases in
Northwest Russia
6. Western vs Post-Soviet Medicine: Donors and
Dilettantes 127
Introduction 127
DOTS in Russia and the Baltic states 129
General Receptiveness to Western Ideas 139
Conclusion 146
vi INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE ARCTIC
7. Patriots, Doctors and Happy Soviets 149
Introduction 149
Interpreting Qualitative Interviews 150
Health Initiatives from the West 152
The Interview Scene: ‘Cast’ and Interpretation 153
Part V Russians in the Borderlands
8. How to be a Northerner 165
Borderlands, Identity, Narrative 165
Interview 1: ‘When I told them how I lived,
they went all misty-eyed’ 169
Interview 2: ‘If you’d asked me last year, I would have said
Murmansk was the best place in the world’ 172
Interview 3: ‘The north is like a bottomless pit
dragging you down’ 174
Negotiating Stereotypes about North and South 176
The Vocabulary Available – Identity as Narrative 181
Changing Borders? 185
Conclusions 187
9. How to be a Russian 190
Introduction 190
Interview 1: ‘Their eyes are always wide open’ 190
Interview 2: ‘As nations, they’re on the decline’ 191
Interview 3: ‘Everything over there predisposes
them to equanimity’ 192
Exploring Stereotypes about Scandinavians 193
The Words to Say It – Identity as Narrative 201
New Borderlands? 204
Narrative Juggling 209
Part VI Post-Agreement Bargaining in the Barents Sea
10. Making Russia Comply: Bargaining Precautionary
Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea 215
Introduction 215
Approaches to State Compliance with International Treaties 217
Post-agreement Bargaining 219
CONTENTS vii
The Norwegian – Russian Fisheries Management Regime
in the Barents Sea 222
Norwegian – Russian Bargaining Experiences 225
Why does Russia Comply? 229
Post-agreement Bargaining Revisited 235
11. Fishing Field Deliberations 237
An Observer’s Account 238
Russian Fishers’ Accounts in the late 1990s 246
Russian Fishers’ Accounts Ten Years Later 250
Bargaining Dynamics 254
Bargaining Results 258
Post-agreement Bargaining Revisited 262
Part VII Arctic Talk, Russian Politics
12. ‘The Global Fight against Canada in the Arctic’ 267
Identity and Foreign Policy 267
All the Way to the Pole 270
‘The Global Fight’ 274
‘The Arctic is our Everything’ 281
Our Ocean, Our Future, Our Foes 285
13. ‘They’ll Squeeze us Out, it’

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Library of Arctic Studies
Zusatzinfo	2 maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	647 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-78453-898-1 / 1784538981
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-898-9 / 9781784538989
Zustand	Neuware