ABSTRACT
Lisbeth Lewander did not live to finish work on her contribution to this volume. Nevertheless, her work was so central to the entire Arctic Nordic project, and her own insights and reflections are so important for the overall results, that I decided, as project leader and editor, to try to bring something from her work to the published book. This chapter is based on her extended abstract, entitled ‘Science for Politics and Politics for Science’, which was submitted in April 2011, and a popular essay in Swedish published in the autumn of 2011, ‘Nordens arktiska perfieri – fragment från ett fältarbete’. 1 The Swedish text was in turn based on extended fieldwork that she carried out in preparation for her final parts of the Arctic Nordic project, which were to deal with security-related issues involving Arctic and North Atlantic science collaboration between the Nordic countries, the United States and Canada. I have edited her texts slightly and inserted references in footnotes to assist the reader but have tried not to depart from the personal essay style that the text had in its original Swedish version and in her early fieldwork report. I would like to thank Dieter Müller, Jessica Shadian and Urban Wråkberg for valuable bibliographic advice and Douglas Smith for adding key information on the history of Churchill.
