1st Edition

Negotiating the Arctic The Construction of an International Region

By E.C.H Keskitalo Copyright 2004
    298 Pages
    by Routledge

    298 Pages
    by Routledge

    This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows that international region discourse has largely been forwarded through the extensive role of North American, particularly Canadian, networks and deriving form their frontier-based conceptualization of the north.

    1. Region-Building in 'The Arctic' 2. Region-Building and Definitions of 'The Arctic' 3. The 'Arctic' in the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and Arctic Council: An Environmental, Indigenous and Foreign Policy Concern 4. Sustainable Development in the Arctic: A Conflict Between Conservation and Utilization 5. The Development of a Regional University for the Arctic 6. The Different Views of the Arctic 7. Canada and the Arctic 8. The Arctic in Other Countries 9. Discussion: A Critique of Arctic Discourse

    Biography

    E.C.H Keskitalo