The Arctic Großraum : geopolitics and the high north / Christopher R. Rossi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Christopher R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

Arctic regions--Strategic aspects.

Arctic regions.

Arctic regions--Politics and government.

Arctic regions--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart, 2025.

Summary:

How should the Arctic be viewed in the 21st century? In this book, a leading commentator assesses the competing players for the Arctic, looking at broad questions of governance and security. The author challenges the view that the Arctic is a passive space which is the focus of competitive advances from superpowers, arguing that it is more correctly understood as a dynamic pluriverse. Drawing on international law, international relations and diplomacy, this is an important re-assessment of the Arctic and its position in geo-politics.

Contents:

Cover

Dedication

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Table of Cases

Chapter One: The Liminal Arctic

The Arctic Pathway of this Book

Chapter Two: The Return of the Großraum

Lines of Amity, Lines of Enmity

Großraum: An Important if Imperfect Fit for Arctic Debates

Großraum: An Imperfect but Usable Analytic Tool

Conceptual Histories of Großraum

Chapter Three: A Particularly Weighty Idiom

A Brief Ontology of Großraum

A Changing Arctic Panopticon?

Großraum, Großräume, Wholes, Parts, and Levels

Polysemous Meanings of the Arctic

Chapter Four: Terra Nullius, Arctic Exceptionalism, and the Jus Publicum Arcticus

The Discovery Doctrine

Temporary Free Space, Condominium, and the Exceptional Case of Spitzbergen

Arctic Council Exceptionalism

Arctic Indigeneity and Arctic Council Relations

The Club within the Club

Chapter Five: Actors and Actorless Threats: Russia and the Tectonic Shift in the Arctic

Actorless Threats: Environmental Problems Held in Abeyance

Arctic Amplification

Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Implications

Efforts to Manage the Remaining Global Commons

The Lure of Commercial Reward Generated by AI.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Other Format:

Print version: Rossi, Christopher R. The Arctic Großraum

ISBN:

9781509988334

9781509988341

OCLC:

1531324348