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RUSSIA IN THE ARCTIC: INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL DIMENSIONS
* Presentation of Arctic Frontiers:
In the Arctic, Russia meets other Arctic states with a number of key national interests that are most easily realized through international cooperation and regional stability. On the other hand, all of the other Arctic coastal states belong to NATO – a security alliance seen as a threat in Russian security thinking – and are currently committed to a partial sanctions regime against Russia due to the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and continued conflict in eastern Ukraine.
All Arctic states have also stated their intention to buffer Arctic cooperation to the extent possible from geopolitical challenges in other compass directions. Russia continues to cooperate in a regional setting with several of these states, not least Norway through a large number of Barents projects.
Does the tense political atmosphere matter for how Russia formulates or pursues its Arctic aims? Given the geopolitical crises and Russian involvement elsewhere in the world (Syria, for example), does Russia have the capacity to invest heavily in Arctic politics at all? Could the Arctic become a deprioritized political ‘backyard’ – with some central issues kept in check but more comprehensive and important problems or opportunities in multilateral relations left unexplored? Or is it possible that Arctic cooperation, like in the Barents or the Arctic Council, can incubate improved relations in other geographical settings? This roundtable explores these questions at two levels – the broader geopolitical/international and the comprehensive regional Barents Euro-Arctic cooperation.
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