Chapter 1: The geopolitics of an Arctic meltdown and the question of EUropean Arctic space
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Monograph Chapter
Published:
26 Jan 2018
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3–6
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112093.00009
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In recent years, the Arctic region has reappeared as a centre of world politics and attracted the interest of stakeholders from within and outside the circumpolar North. The region is literally melting and the term ‘Arctic geopolitics’ has become a popular catchphrase to illustrate the Arctic’s status quo and its allegedly fluid future. During that time the European Union also discovered its Northern neighbourhood. Concerned about an unstable Arctic region and related spill-over effects reaching Europe, the EU has shown considerable interest in having a determining influence on future regional developments. It envisioned an Arctic future alongside its own conceptualisation of world order, rule of law and good governance.

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Cover The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic
The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic
Monograph Book
Published:
26 Jan 2018
Print ISBN:
9781788112086
eISBN:
9781788112093
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112093
Pages:
240
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
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