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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Reduced influence in the Arctic?
04.11.2021In the Arctic Council, eight states work on, among several other pressing issues, the alarming impacts of global climate change. But who gets a say? Research Professor Elana Wilson Rowe investigates this in a new article. -
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: Academic article
Ecosystemic politics: Analyzing the consequences of speaking for adjacent nature on the global stage
2021This article introduces a conceptual framework for analysing and comparing the broader or unintended effects of cooperation anchored in border-crossing ecosystems. The importance of addressing this lacuna in our scholarship on such sub-global cooperation is underscored by research in political geography... -
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Transnational Ecosystems Cooperation is Taking off
19.08.2021Do these efforts to govern border-crossing ecosystems have unique effects that matter for global politics more generally? -
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: Editorial
Norge er en stormakt innen havforskning - FNs tiår for havforskning må gi et ytterligere løft
2021Op-ed on Norway's role in the UN Ocean Decade. -
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: Popular scientific chapter/article
Livet ved Havet (Life along the Ocean)
This chapter translates the core findings of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy into Norwegian and relates them to Norwegian domestic and foreign policy challenges. -
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: Popular scientific lecture
How do we value the Arctic? Seminar with Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Ice versus open water. Warmer versus cooler water masses. Saltier versus fresher waters. New, invasive species are entering the Arctic Ocean where fish stocks are on the move, and on land vegetation is expanding whereas the snow cover is shrinking. What was earlier a firm, frozen ground is now thawing.... -
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: Popular scientific lecture
Frenemies: Arctic cooperation in conflict and a view from Russia
Lecture to congressional fellows participating in the Wilson Foreign Policy Fellowship Program (Wilson Center, DC) -
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: Popular scientific lecture
What to Expect from the Upcoming Russian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council
Presented by CIPS, the Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique (OPSA), and the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). The Arctic Council is the primary multilateral forum regrouping Arctic states and people and cooperating on social and environmental issues.... -
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: Academic lecture
Frenemies: An Arctic repertoire of cooperation in conflict
Invited speaker, UiO Faculty of Law, 'Security and the Global Commons of Sea and Space' -
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: Popular scientific lecture
Arctic governance: fit for future challenges?
Expert testimony for EU Parliament -
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: Popular scientific lecture
Non-Arctic countries and Arctic politics
Talk at roundtable seminar organized by Japanese Institute of International Affairs and the Norwegian Embassy in Japan. Part of the NUPI project for the Munich Security Conference. -
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: Popular scientific lecture
Invited speaker: Russian climate politics
Invited speaker on Russia's climate politics, at SWP-Berlin's Working Group on Russia: Annual conference, 7 December 2020 -
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: Popular scientific lecture
Invited talk: Three geopolitical risks in the Arctic and related IR disciplinary troubles
Talk to Fulbright Arctic Scholars on geopolitical risks in the Arctic. -
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: Chapter
Red Arctic? Affective Geopolitics and the 2007 Russian Flag-planting Incident in the Central Arctic Ocean
This chapter discusses visual representation and Arctic geopolitics, exploring how the image of the flag planted on the Arctic seabed by Russia has persisted as a core visual image of Arctic politics. Using Google Image Search, we compare the pervasiveness of this image with a small selectin of potential... -
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: Chapter
A Governance and Risk Inventory for a Changing Arctic
In this chapter, Elana Wilson Rowe, Ulf Sverdrup, Karsten Friis, Geir Hønneland, and Mike Sfraga caution against viewing trends of conflict and cooperation in the Arctic in binary terms. While the US and Europe are determined to confront malign activity in the region, all sides continue to “demonstrate... -
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Launching Norway’s Plan for the UN’s “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development”
08.01.2021NUPI’s Centre for Ocean Governance is ready to step up to challenge. -
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: Editorial
Unexplored resources for EU Arctic policy: Energy, oceans and space
2020The EUs current Arctic policy from 2016 focuses on climate and environmental protection, sustainable development and international cooperation. The EU has followed up with contributions to research and international cooperation in these areas. However, the EU’s engagement in the Arctic is overlooked... -
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: Editorial
EU's Arktispolitik er for snæver
2020Energy politics, space policy and ocean governance need to be considered, if the EU is to succeed in creating a well-founded and effective political narrative about its own role in the Arctic. -
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Doubling Down on Arctic Diplomacy
12.11.2020What impact will the new Biden administration have on Arctic politics? While the Arctic as a region is not likely to figure as feature in the 100-day plan of a new Biden presidency, there are reasons to expect some key changes for the region.- Alf Håkon Hoel
- Yun Sun
- Alexander Sergunin
- Robert Orttung
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: Editorial
Doubling Down on Arctic Diplomacy
The Arctic looms large in the popular consciousness as a potential new theatre of conflict. But the real risk is that the consuming politics of great power rivalry will deflect attention from the real progress of diplomacy and the everyday work of Arctic governance. This op-ed outlines three key areas...