ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security offers a comprehensive examination of security in the region, encompassing both state-based and militarized notions of security, as well as broader security perspectives reflecting debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies.

Since the turn of the century, the Arctic has increasingly been in the global spotlight, resulting in the often invoked idea of “Arctic exceptionalism” being questioned. At the same time, the unconventional political power which the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples hold calls into question conventional ideas about geopolitics and security. This handbook examines security in this region, revealing contestations and complementarities between narrower, state-based and/or militarized notions of security and broader security perspectives reflecting concerns and debates about changes in climate, environment, economies, and societies.

The volume is split into five thematic parts:

• Theorizing Arctic Security

• The Arctic Powers

• Security in the Arctic through Governance

• Non-Arctic States, Regional and International Organizations

• People, States, and Security.

This book will be of great interest to students of Arctic politics, global governance, geography, security studies, and International Relations.

chapter 1|12 pages

Understanding Arctic security

What has changed? What hasn’t?

chapter 2|14 pages

The Arctic peace projection

From Cold War fronts to cooperative fora1

part I|100 pages

Theorizing Arctic security

chapter 6|11 pages

Security as an analytical tool

Human and comprehensive security approaches to understanding the Arctic

chapter 7|11 pages

Indigenous security theory

Intersectional analysis from the bottom up

chapter 9|12 pages

Environmental security in the Arctic

Shades of grey?

chapter 10|13 pages

Economic security

Employment policy needs for rural and remote communities

part II|92 pages

The Arctic powers

chapter 12|12 pages

Arctic security

The Canadian context

chapter 16|10 pages

Small state, big impact?

Iceland’s first National Security Policy

chapter 17|10 pages

Security perspectives from Finland

An Arctic case

chapter 18|11 pages

Security perspectives from Sweden

part III|90 pages

Security in the Arctic through governance

part IV|52 pages

Non-Arctic states, regional, and international organizations

chapter 26|13 pages

Considering the Arctic as a security region

The roles of China and Russia

chapter 27|13 pages

Japan and Arctic security

chapter 29|13 pages

NATO, the OSCE, and the Arctic region

European security organizations and the High North

part V|71 pages

People, states, and security

chapter 30|14 pages

Indigenous peoples