Arctic Regional Security

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Author(s): Alexander Sergunin (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia & Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vasilii Erokhin (Harbin Engineering University, China), Tianming Gao (Harbin Engineering University, China)and Xiuhua Zhang (Harbin Engineering University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6954-1.ch004

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Economics and Economic Theory / Environment & Agriculture / Sustainable Development

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This chapter examines an emerging regional security system in the Arctic. There was a significant shift in the Arctic powers' threat perceptions and security policies in the High North. In contrast with the Cold War era when the Arctic was a zone for the global confrontation between the USSR and the U.S./NATO, now this region is seen by international players as a platform for international cooperation. The Arctic countries now believe that there are no serious hard security threats to them and that the soft security agenda is much more important. The military power now has new functions, such as ascertaining coastal states' sovereignty over their exclusive economic zones and continental shelves in the region; protecting the Arctic countries' economic interests in the North, and performing some symbolic functions. The Arctic states believe that the regional cooperative agenda could include climate change mitigation, environmental protection, maritime safety, Arctic research, indigenous peoples, cross- and trans-border cooperative projects, culture, etc.

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