Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 282 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0203508114
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041594712X
Series Statement:
Studies in international relations
Content:
This book analyses not only Arctic organisation and background but also the way in which current regional development draws upon the extensive history of polar research and exploration
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-256) and index
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NEGOTIATING THE ARCTIC The Construction of an International Region; Copyright; Contents; List of Main Abbreviations and Glossary; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Region-building in "The Arctic"; Region-building as a research perspective; Region-building as discourse; The operations of discourse: framing and hegemony; Views of historicity; The actor and knowledge in region-building; The inherently "critical" approach of discourse analysis and a region-building perspective; Methodology of the study; Aims of the work; Chapter 2 Region-building and Definitions of "The Arctic"
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The High Arctic of exploration and comparison with the Antarctic: the establishment of a perspectiveEnvironmental and historical definitions of "the Arctic"; Political and security definitions of "the Arctic"; "The Arctic" as an international region: the development of a discourse on the Arctic; Bases of description: the Arctic as frontier; The development of state region-building: the Murmansk momentum; Legitimate political actors: the official designation of an "Arctic Eight"; The development of the Arctic in research-policy networks; Conclusion
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Chapter 3 The "Arctic" in the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and Arctic Council: An Environmental, Indigenous, and Foreign Policy ConcernThe Finnish Initiative for the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy; Establishing the AEPS: an environmental initiative promoting foreign policy; The Finnish foreign policy background; Designing the AEPS: the content of an Arctic approach; The development of the Arctic Council: the Canadian initiative; The design of the Arctic Council; Responses to the proposal for an Arctic Council; Conclusion
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Chapter 4 Sustainable Development in the Arctic: A Conflict Between Conservation and UtilizationSustainable development; The contested issues for a task force on sustainable development; The development of a sustainable development agenda: the role of the ICC; First meetings of the Task Force on Sustainable Development and Utilization (TFSDU); The conflicting TFSDU agenda: strategy and marine mammals; Sustainable development as an overarching aim of cooperation?; Establishing the Arctic Council; Continued conflict; The issue focus for an "Arctic"?; Conclusion: an unproblematized region?
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Chapter 5 The Development of a Regional University for the ArcticIntroducing the idea; Clientele and consultation; Values and focus of an Arctic regional university: who are the northern people?; Studies of rather than for the north?; The final report of the UoA feasibility study; An Arctic region?; Chapter 6 Views of "The Arctic" in Different States; The Canadian Arctic: geography and discourse; Canada's frontier development; The differences in international and domestic development of the Arctic in Canada; Generalized Arctic description
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The Arctic in Greenland, Alaska and Russia: partial coherence with Canadian discourse
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415947121
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Negotiating the Arctic : The Construction of an International Region
Language:
English