ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to provide insights into theorizing security in the Arctic. It focuses on understanding how the security concept has been employed in theory, and argues for a comprehensive approach to understanding security in Arctic contexts. The discussion begins with a general review about how security is understood and how it has, historically, progressively narrowed from a concept that was inclusive to one that was reduced to the concerns of the state. The chapter then moves into the widening and deepening of the security concept, particularly through the lens of human security. The history of, and challenges with, the concept of human security are addressed before moving into a discussion about comprehensive security and how this approach best integrates important, multiple perspectives and visions of security that operate simultaneously in the Arctic context.
