'Observing' the Arctic : Asia in the Arctic Council and beyond

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    • Woon, Chih Yuan
    • Dodds, Klaus

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'Observing' the Arctic : Asia in the Arctic Council and beyond

edited by Chih Y. Woon, Klaus Dodds

Edward Elgar Pub., c2020

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Observing the Arctic : Asia in the Arctic Council and beyond

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Addressing the growing economic, political, and cultural presence of Asian states in the Arctic region, this timely book looks at how that presence is being evaluated and engaged with by Arctic states and their northern communities. A diverse range of authors addresses the question that underpins so much of this interest in Asian engagement with the northern latitudes: what do Asian countries want to gain from the Arctic? Although China, Japan, India, Singapore and South Korea were only accepted as formal observers to the Arctic Council in 2013, this book outlines a longer history of Asian-Arctic engagement that spans centuries. It highlights how this role as observer generates new challenges, dangers and opportunities for Arctic states and their northern communities. Climate change, energy and other resources such as fish, global geopolitical change and northern autonomy are shown to all play a part in mediating how Asian states are observed and evaluated in the Arctic Council and beyond. Students of Asian and Arctic studies will find the exploration of the roots of religion, culture and trade in the long-standing Asian interest in the Arctic to be compelling. This will also be a beneficial read particularly for scholars in geopolitics, international relations and political science as it shows how an intergovernmental forum can have global, national and local impacts. Contributors include: M.M. Bennett, S. Chaturvedi, K. Dodds, N. Filimonova, N. Hong, S. Knecht, N. Liu, I.A. Medby, Y.-K. Park, U. Sinha, C.Y. Woon

Table of Contents

Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Arctic Council, 'Asian States' and the 'Global Arctic Klaus Dodds and Chih Yuan Woon Section I- Institutional and Geopolitical Context: The Arctic Council, Arctic States, Permanent Participants, Observers Chapter 2: The Arctic Council, Asian Observers and the Role of 'Shadow Networks' in the Science-Policy Interface Sebastian Knecht Chapter 3: Scale-Jumping in the Arctic Council: Indigenous Permanent Participants and Asian Observer States Mia M. Bennett Chapter 4: The Asian Factor in 'Arctic Connectivity': Ecology, Geopolitics and the Social Sanjay Chaturvedi Section II- Asia and the Arctic and Arctic States in Asia Chapter 5: The Arctic Policy of China: An Analysis of Russian Academic Discussions Nadezhda Filimonova Chapter 6: Observed as Arctic: Norwegian and Icelandic Arctic State Identities and the Asian 'Other' Ingrid A. Medby Chapter 7: Going Beyond the 'Original Inter-Arctic States': China Acting in the Arctic and Observing the Arctic Council Nong Hong Chapter 8: Boosting South Korea in a Changing Arctic Council: Achievements and Challenges Young-Kil Park Chapter 9: India in the Arctic: Civilization Connect and Contemporary Policy Uttam Sinha Chapter 10: The Fear of By-Pass: The Flexible Diplomacy of Jacking-up and Stretching out Singapore's Arctic Connections Chih Yuan Woon and Klaus Dodds Chapter 11: Afterword Nengye Liu Index

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