ABSTRACT

This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows that international region discourse has largely been forwarded through the extensive role of North American, particularly Canadian, networks and deriving form their frontier-based conceptualization of the north.

chapter 1|24 pages

Region-building in “The Arctic”

chapter 3|22 pages

The “Arctic” in the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and Arctic Council

An Environmental, Indigenous, and Foreign Policy Concern

chapter 4|27 pages

Sustainable Development in the Arctic

A Conflict Between Conservation and Utilization

chapter 7|27 pages

Arctic Discourse Dominance