Increasing Relevance of Treaties: The Case of the Arctic
The Arctic was one of the main theatres for strategic military confrontation during the Cold War between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. There was no place for multilateral cooperation, other than for very limited issue areas, such as the 1973 Agreement on Conservation of Po...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s2398772300001847 2023-05-15T14:39:32+02:00 Increasing Relevance of Treaties: The Case of the Arctic Koivurova, Timo 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2398772300001847 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S2398772300001847 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms AJIL Unbound volume 108, page 52-56 ISSN 2398-7723 Law journal-article 2014 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s2398772300001847 2022-08-23T16:57:13Z The Arctic was one of the main theatres for strategic military confrontation during the Cold War between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. There was no place for multilateral cooperation, other than for very limited issue areas, such as the 1973 Agreement on Conservation of Polar Bears between the five states with polar bear populations. Yet, the warming of relations by the end of the Cold War changed all this. Inspired by Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech in 1987, in which the Soviet leader pro-posed various possible areas for Arctic cooperation, differing ideas for international cooperation were advanced. Canadians, in particular, were trying to advance international treaty-based general cooperation for the Arctic, but this never came to pass and it was eventually Finland who was able to broker soft-law collaboration between the Cold War rivals. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Arctic AJIL Unbound 108 52 56 |
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The Arctic was one of the main theatres for strategic military confrontation during the Cold War between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. There was no place for multilateral cooperation, other than for very limited issue areas, such as the 1973 Agreement on Conservation of Polar Bears between the five states with polar bear populations. Yet, the warming of relations by the end of the Cold War changed all this. Inspired by Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech in 1987, in which the Soviet leader pro-posed various possible areas for Arctic cooperation, differing ideas for international cooperation were advanced. Canadians, in particular, were trying to advance international treaty-based general cooperation for the Arctic, but this never came to pass and it was eventually Finland who was able to broker soft-law collaboration between the Cold War rivals. |
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