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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Publication
: NUPI Policy Brief
The Arctic Council and US domestic policymaking
One widely recognized achievement of the Arctic Council and its various working groups has been the production of collectively generated assessments on Arctic problems. Assessment reports such as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) provide an important baseline of shared knowledge for making... -
Research project
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?
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: Del av bok/rapport
Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic
2018Sustainable development has become an ‘obligatory’ concept that can encompass many kinds of policies and practices, including in the Russian Arctic. Russia inherited a set of ‘home-grown’ science-policy vocabularies and practices relating to environmental risk and a strong focus on protected areas/national... -
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: NUPI Policy Brief
Sceptical diplomacy: Should heads of state bother to talk climate change science with Putin?
2018This policy brief illustrates how the Russian top leadership discusses climate change and responds to interventions and efforts made by other countries’ leaders and high-level diplomats on the topic of climate change. The policy brief presents one data set examining the distribution of the Kremlin’s... -
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: Rapport/avhandling
Valdai Paper #92: Russia’s Far East Initiatives in Troubled Geopolitical Times
The China–Russia rapprochement forms the centrepiece of Russia’s much hyped policy of a ‘turn to the East’, a policy aimed at transforming the Russian Far East from a territorial backwater into a new gateway to China, North-East Asia and beyond. In 2013, President Vladimir Putin declared the development... -
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: KRONIKK
Codeword China
2018(From op-ed): When it comes to Arctic regional political governance and economic outlooks, the policy and academic communities have become good at asking ‘what about China’ and facilitating a conversation on several policy issues. All the main Arctic conferences have panels on China in the Arctic in... -
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: MONOGRAFI
Arctic Governance: Power in cross-border cooperation
2018This book seeks to pose and explore a question that sheds light on the contested but largelyl cooperative nature of Arctic governance in the post Cold-War period: how does power matter - and how has it mattered - in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? Each chapter functions... -
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. -
Research project
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? -
News
FRIPRO funding for risk-research project
08.02.2018Who influences how states manage risks, such as conflicts? -
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: Del av bok/rapport
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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: Del av bok/rapport
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... -
Research project
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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Publication
: 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... -
News
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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: Del av bok/rapport
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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: KRONIKK
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.