Elana Wilson Rowe

Unexplored resources for EU Arctic policy: Energy, oceans and space

EUs Arktis-policy fra 2016 fokuserer på klima og miljøbeskyttelse, bærekraftig utvikling og internasjonalt samarbeid. EU har fulgt opp med bidrag til forskning og internasjonalt samarbeid på disse områdene. Likevel er EUs engasjement i Arktis oversett internt. Arktis oppfattes som et marginalt område...

EU's Arktispolitik er for snæver

Energipolitikken, rumpolitikken og havpolitikken skal inddrages, hvis EU skal lykkes med at lave en velforankret politisk fortælling om tilgangen til Arktis, skriver fire forskere.

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...

Rethinking Arctic Governance

I denne podkast-episoden snakker Liubov Timonina og Romain Chuffart med Elana Wilson Rowe (Forsker 1, NUPI) om hennes nye bok, Arctic Governance: Power in Cross-Border Cooperation (Manchester University Press, 2018).

A Governance and Risk Inventory for a Changing Arctic

Myndighetspersoner, militære ledere og politiske observatører har påpekt fremveksten av en ny global stormaktsrivalisering mellom USA, Russland og Kina, med en lang rekke implikasjoner. Med dette bakteppet for Arctic Security Roundtable på Munich Security Conference 2020, blir deltakere av rundbordet...

Governing complexity in the Arctic region

This book argues that confining our understandings of Arctic governance to Arctic states and a focus on the Arctic Council as the primary site of circumpolar governance provides an incomplete picture. Instead, the authors embrace the complexity of governance in the Arctic by systematically analyzing...

Analyzing Frenemies: An Arctic repertoire of cooperation and rivalry

Mesteparten av samhandlingen mellom stater skjer et eller annet sted imellom robust, idyllisk og ubestridt fred og full krig. Arktis er ikke noe unntak. Her har intensivt transnasjonalt samarbeid og manifestasjoner av sikkerhetspolitisk rivalisering mellom NATO og Russland utspilt seg i over 30 år i...

Business as usual? The private sector’s changing role in Arctic environmental governance

How has the private sector engaged in crossborder Arctic diplomacy? Despite a focus on business actors as targets of policy recommendations from the Arctic Council and an increased attention on the importance of engaging with the private sector, we find that business actors have not yet been heavily...

Improving Future Ocean Governance – Governance of Global Goods in an Age of Global Shifts

Japan’s G20 presidency in 2019 will take the lead in promoting environmentally sustainable economic growth and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a gathering of coastal states, under Japan’s presidency the G20 will specifically work to reduce marine plastic pollution and support marine biodiversity....

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...

Same word, same idea? Sustainable development talk and the Russian Arctic

Sustainable 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...

Sceptical diplomacy: Should heads of state bother to talk climate change science with Putin?

This 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...

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...