Arctic Exceptionalism : Cooperation in a Contested World / Barry Scott Zellen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zellen, Barry Scott, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Arctic regions.

Geopolitics.

Arctic regions--Foreign relations.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--International status.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2024.

Summary:

For some three centuries, the Arctic region has been a zone of collaborative governance. The interests of diverse sovereign states, indigenous peoples, NGOs, and other stakeholders have been aligned--even during periods of global conflict. Now, however, these consensus-based foundations are being tested. In Arctic Exceptionalism, Barry Scott Zellen considers: What explains the enduring cooperation in the region? Will new international dynamics upend the consensual approach? Could the intensifying nationalism across the Inuit homeland likewise endanger it? Zellen traces the region's long diplomatic history to show how competing interests have managed to establish an enduring stable order, and how escalating state rivalries and renewed nationalism are likely to affect it.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

copyright page

Table of Contents

Ch 1- Arctic Exceptionalism

Structural Foundations of Arctic Exceptionalism

Arctic Exceptionalism Takes Root

Notes

Ch 2- Strategic Expansion to the Arctic Region

The Three Pillars of Order

Fur Empires: Colonial Foundations of the Modern Arctic

From Whaling Ships to Trading Posts: Nineteenth-Century Arctic Globalization Hubs

"Company-States" of the Fur Trade: Colonization by Gentler Means?

Tribalism Meets Globalism at the Top of the World

Ch 3- The Age of Arctic Land Claims

World War II and the Cold War: From Arctic Megaprojects to Indigenous Gigaclaims

Land Claims Agreements as State Expansion "by Other Means"

Co-management as a Model for Collaborative Arctic Governance

An Alternative World System: Arctic Exceptionalism as a Model for International Relations

Ch 4- Inuit Sovereignty in a Westphalian World

Domestic Foundations of Arctic Exceptionalism

Inuit Diplomacy: Indigenous Values in International Relations

The Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Arctic Sovereignty

Multilevel Governance as a Foundation for Arctic Exceptionalism

The Globalization of Resource Co-management and Collaboration

Collaborative Versus Unitary Sovereignty: The Case for an Inuit Sovereign Restoration

Greenlandic Independence and Arctic Exceptionalism: Toward a Westphalian Inuit Polity?

Roots of Greenlandic Autonomy: The Circumpolar Inuit Rights Movement

Climate Consequences: Energizing the Inuit Rights Movement

Alternate Models for a Post-Denmark Greenland

Seizing the Moment:A sserting a Stronger Commitment to, and Presence in, the Arctic

Ch 5- The Rise and Collapse of Consensus

Balancing Tribe and State: The Ottawa Declaration and the Birth of the Arctic Council.

America's Long Embrace of a Multilevel, Multilateral Arctic

Arctic Exceptionalism Navigates Intensifying State Rivalry

The 2019 Arctic Council Ministerial: Competitive Tensions Undermine Consensus

Russia's Arctic Ambitions: Defensive or Destabilizing?

Arctic Exceptionalism and Atlantic Security

"Whoever Holds Iceland Holds the World"

Sovereign Aspirations: Greenland as a Future Strategic Pivot?

Polar Silk Roads from World War II to the Present

From Japan's Twentieth-Century Aleutian Conquest to China's Twenty-First-Century Polar Silk Road: Historical Memory and Reimagined Arctic Futures

Ch 6- The Realist Foundations of a Collaborative Arctic Order

Geopolitics of a Warming Arctic

Unsinkable Aircraft Carriers: From Cold War to Collapsing Cryosphere

Island Chains in Naval Thought

Stepping Stones to Everywhere

Beyond Strategic Triangularity: Indigenous Peoples, Transnational Polities, and the Human Terrain

Colonial States and Sovereign Dualities: Indigenous Polities and Political Order

Indigenous Engagement, Autocratic Containment, and Arctic Exceptionalism

Beyond the Arctic: Polar Exceptionalism, North and South

Ch 7- A Cooperative Arctic in a Contested World?

Geopolitical Turbulence Returns to the Arctic

The Russian Bear Reawakens

Preserving a Peaceful Arctic in a Contested World

The Ukraine War and the 2022 US Arctic Strategy Update

Chair Rotates but Arctic Council Future Still Uncertain

Future Unknown, for the Arctic Council and for Arctic Exceptionalism

Is Arctic Exceptionalism Over? After a Year in "Purgatory," Calls for "Something New"

Moscow's New Foreign Policy Concept and Eurasian Unity: Pivoting Back to Mackinder's Classic "Geographical Pivot"

A "Delicate Transfer" of the Arctic Council Chair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Zellen, Barry Scott Arctic Exceptionalism

ISBN:

9781962551274

OCLC:

1433093139