Elana Wilson Rowe
Research ProfessorElana Wilson Rowe is research professor at NUPI and an adjunct professor at Nord University.
She holds a PhD in Geography/Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge (2006). Her areas of expertise include international relations in the Arctic, science and expert knowledge in global governance, climate politics and Russian foreign and northern policy.
You can find full text versions of some of Wilson Rowe’s work at Academia and Research Gate.
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Arctic Governance: Power in cross-border cooperation
2018Arctic Governance: Power in cross-border cooperation -
Research project
The International Panel on Arctic Environmental Responsibility
2018 - 2022 (Ongoing)The International Panel on Arctic Environmental Responsibility is an independent and free-standing body tasked with assessing the environmental status of oil, gas, and mining companies in the Arctic.
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News
Prestigious ERC funding to Elana Wilson Rowe – ‘I’m thrilled!’
27.07.2018The European Research Council (ERC) yearly awards talented early career researchers project funding through Starting grants. 403 research projects were granted this year, and Elana Wilson Rowe's (NUPI) is one of them. -
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The Market for Anarchy
2018 - 2022 (Ongoing)The Market for Anarchy project seeks to better understand how state behaviour is shaped by assessments of and responses to different types of risks.
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: KRONIKK
Trump, Putin and rejected greatness
2018Why do Putin and Trump undermine the international consensus knowledge that their national academic and governmental milieus have been so central to building? -
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FRIPRO funding for risk-research project
08.02.2018Who influences how states manage risks, such as conflicts? -
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Gateway or Garrison? Border regions in times of geopolitical crisis
Russia's border regions have had moments as open 'gateways' to cooperation. More often, however, the border has been viewed as a 'garrison': an outpost of state power. This chapter places the Russian Far East in the broader context of Russia's pursuit of economic development... -
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Afterword: 6400 kilometers away - but not a policy world apart
The Afterword presents two key findings from this volume. First, while numerous new strategy documents and instruments have been adopted in recent years, contributing authors voice concern about the steps Moscow has taken to translate lofty ideas into practical policies. Second, the key initiatives were... -
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Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)GPARC aims to provide up-to-date academic and policy analyses of how major powers (USA, Russia, China) set parameters for and intervene in the maritime politics of the Arctic.
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: ANTOLOGI
Russia's Turn to the East - Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation
2018This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent... -
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NEW BOOK: Is Russia turning its back on the West?
17.01.2018Has Russia strengthened its ties to East Asia – pulled back from the West? -
Thu 1 Feb 2018Event
Theory seminar: Science, technology, and ideas of expansive territorial sovereignty in Western international relations
Time: 14:00 Location: NUPIJustiina Dahl visits NUPI to talk about what failed attempts to settle the Arctic can tell us about norm development in the international system
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Imagining the future: local perceptions of Arctic extractive industry projects that didn't happen
2017Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world – or so we are told. But what about the views, interests, and needs of the peoples who live in the region? What about the myriad of other factors affecting the Arctic and its peoples? This book explores opportunities... -
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Commentary: Neighbors in a changed terrain
2017The Norwegian Government released a new strategy document for the High North at the end of April 2017. This short opinion piece examines some of the key areas of consistency and change in the international aspects of the strategy. -
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Promises, promises: The unbuilt petroleum environment in Murmansk
2017The Arctic as a booming oil and gas province has been a predominant geopolitical representation of the region. However, the shale gas revolution in the United States and the drop in oil prices since late 2014 has reduced the viability of many high-cost Arctic oil and gas prospects. Little scholarly... -
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The Arctic and a Trump Administration Yet to Come
2016How may the Trump administration affect the Arctic? This is the topic for Elana Wilson Rowe's High North News commentary. -
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: ARTIKKEL
Local perceptions of corporate social responsibility for Arctic petroleum in the Barents region
2016Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is promoted and critiqued by many players involved in or opposed to petroleum exploration and extraction, although a common understanding of CSR’s theoretical and practical meanings rarely exists. This paper uses Arctic petroleum in the Barents region (Norway and... -
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Commentary: Indigenous peoples are safeguarding Arctic cooperation
2016At the recently concluded Arctic Circle Assembly held in Reykjavik, representatives from Arctic states underlined time and again the achievement of continuing cooperation under the Arctic Council and on shared Arctic issues more broadly. An advisor working on US Arctic policy suggested that we need to... -
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The Arctic buffer
24.10.2016Indigenous peoples are safeguarding Arctic cooperation, Elana Wilson Rowe (NUPI) writes in her most recent High North News commentary.