ABSTRACT
Interest in Arctic politics is on the rise. While recent accounts of the topic place much emphasis on climate change or a new geopolitics of the region, the history of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and Arctic politics reaches back much further in time.
Drawing out the complex relationship between domestic, Arctic, international and transnational Inuit politics, this book is the first in-depth account of the political history of the ICC. It recognises the politics of Inuit and the Arctic as longstanding and intricate elements of international relations. Beginning with European exploration of the region and concluding with recent debates over ownership of the Arctic, the book unfolds the history of a polity that has overcome colonization and attempted assimilation to emerge as a political actor which has influenced both Artic and global governance.
This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of Arctic politics, indigenous affairs, IR theory and environmental politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
chapter |14 pages
Sovereignty historicized
part |29 pages
Constructing Westphalia
chapter |12 pages
Discovery
chapter |15 pages
Constructing an indigenous Inuit
part |120 pages
Expanding the boundaries of Westphalia
chapter |14 pages
Oil and circumpolar Inuit politics 1
chapter |19 pages
Building an Arctic regime
chapter |23 pages
Turning theory into practice
part |40 pages
Governance beyond Westphalia