Polar geopolitics? : knowledges, resources and legal regimes /
The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) have enjoyed widespread public attention in recent years, as issues of conservation, sustainability, resource speculation and geopolitical manoeuvring have all garnered considerable international media interest. This critical collection of new and origina...
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar Publishing,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- PART I Global and regional frameworks; 1. Polar geopolitics; 2. The polar regions and the law of the sea; 3. Defining and recognizing the outer limits of the continental shelf in the polar regions; 4. Re-justifying the Antarctic Treaty System for the 21st century: rights, expectations and global equity; 5. Adapting governance and regulation of the marine Arctic; PART II National visions; 6. 'We have proved it, the Arctic is ours': resources, security andstrategy in the Russian Arctic.
- 7. Maintaining hegemony at a distance: ambivalence in US Arctic policy; 8. 'Securing' geography: framings, logics and strategies in the Norwegian high north; 9. The reluctant Arctic citizen: Sweden and the North; 10. China, Canada and framings of Arctic geopolitics; 11. (Re)Assembling Britain's 'Arctic'; 12. Connecting southern frontiers: Argentina, the South West Atlantic and 'Argentine Antarctic Territory'; 13. Militant geography and frontier vigilantism: Australia, 'Australian Antarctic Territory' and the 'southern flank'; PART III Indigenous and Northern geopolitics.
- 14. Northern geopolitics: actors, interests and processes in the circumpolar Arctic; 15. Making sense of contemporary Greenland: indigeneity, resources and sovereignty; 16. Pipeline politics in northwest Canada; 17. Narratives, bureaucracies and indigenous legal orders: resource governance in Finnish Lapland; Index.