Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
The GPARC team analyzes the 1) role of domestic networks in shaping policy preferences and 2) the impact of multilateral assessments and decisions on these national preferences and networks. In other words, we analyze two policy traffic directions - from domestic networks in Washington, Moscow and Beijing and outwards to international forums on Arctic maritime politics and from the Arctic Council (or other producers of international policy positions) into these domestic networks.
The project is managed by Helge Blakkisrud and Elana Wilson Rowe.
Related events:
Watch all the panels from the project's final conference: NUPI’s Russia Conference 2020 - Great Powers and Arctic Politics
Arctic governance: cooperation and power tactics. (The policy roundtable at Arctic Frontiers 2019 was attended by 40 participants)
Russia in 2019: What Lies Ahead? ( Policy Workshop in Washington DC, 2019.)
Chinese Activities in the Arctic: The Regional Perceptions (Policy note on China and the Arctic and event at the Stimson Center, June 19, 2018)
Funders
The Ministry of Foreign AffairsFunding program
Arktis2030Articles
The Russia Conference: Cold Peace in the Arctic?
On September 14, NUPI’s Russia Conference took place in Oslo. Couldn’t be there? Watch the entire event, including Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide's key note speech, on YouTube.
Doubling Down on Arctic Diplomacy
What 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.
Publications
The Geopolitics of Fish in the Arctic
Analyzing Frenemies: An Arctic repertoire of cooperation and rivalry
Rethinking Arctic Governance
Governing the Arctic: The Russian State Commission for Arctic Development and the Forging of a New Domestic Arctic Policy Agenda
Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic
Codeword China
Trump, Putin and rejected greatness
The Arctic Council and US domestic policymaking
Project Manager
Participants
External
- Yun Sun , Stimson Institute
- Dr. Robert Orttung , George Washington University
- Prof. Alexander Sergunin , St. Petersburg State University
- Prof. Alf Håkon Hoel , UiT
GPARC publications from our external partners:
- What You May Not Know About Sino-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic and Why it Matters. Op-ed by Yun Sun (with Sherri Goodman), The Diplomat, August 2020
- Why China’s Interests in the Arctic are Constrained, op-ed by Yun Sun, The Wire China, June 2020
- Defining the Chinese Threat in the Arctic, commentary by Yun Sun, The Arctic Institute, April 2020
- US Arctic Policymaking Under Trump and Obama: Implications for Russia and China, Policy memo by Robert Orttung, April 2019 (English only)
- Forging Russia's Arctic strategy: actors and decision-making. Article by A. Sergunin and V. Konyshev, June 2019 (English only)
- Round on the Law of the Sea Op-ed by Alf Håkon Hoel, Framsenteret, September 2018 (Norwegian only)
- Ocean, fish and international politics Op-ed by Alf Håkon Hoel, Framsenteret, October 2018 (Norwegian only)
- Plastic in the sea by Alf Håkon Hoel, December 2018 (Norwegian only)
- Who will own the Arctic? by Helge Blakkisrud, November 2018 (Norwegian only)
- Back to "Normalcy", Arctic 2018: vozvrashcheniye k «normalnosti» by A. Sergunin, December 2018 (English and Russian)
Events
NUPI’s Russia Conference 2020: Great Powers and Arctic Politics
Please join us at NUPI’s Russia Conference on 10 September – this year in an online format!
The Russia Conference 2018: Cold peace in the Arctic?
How does the conflict between Russia and the West affect the situation in the Arctic? Join us at NUPI’s annual Russia Conference on 14 September to find out.