The Arctic: Common Good or National interests? Johannes Nordby Royal Danish Defence College
The Scramble for the Arctic 3 04 -03 -2021
Institutionalizing the Arctic • • Economic Transportation Tourism Science • But what about: • Military security • Political Security 4 04 -03 -2021
UNCLOS Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf 5 04 -03 -2021
Arctic Council Main political purpose: International recognition of the Arctic as belonging to the Arctic states. Exclusion of Non-Arctic states The observer status of Non-arctic states. 6 04 -03 -2021
Arctic Council Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution, Preparedness and Response in the Arctic Canada-Denmark, Agreement for Co-operation Relating to the Marine Environment 7 04 -03 -2021
Arctic Security Forces Roundtable 8 04 -03 -2021
A Danish take on Arctic security The Kingdom is the weakness Arctic power A shift from idealism to realism? Danish security policy is becoming less snow blind White paper on military presence due December 2014.
Concluding remarks on institutionalizing the Arctic • More multilateral agreements within ”soft” security • But a lack of institutionalizing political and military security. • Spill over from the conflict in Ukraine. • Arctic Council as a political institution and political networking. • Exclusion of other institutions and states • Mainly bilateral agreement on UNCLOS issues 10 04 -03 -2021