Polar Stars: Toward an Epistemological Understanding of Security Constellations and the Arctic Case
Abstract The reemergence of great power competition, seen most significantly in the tension over Taiwan between the People’s Republic of China and the United States and in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has sparked interest in the Arctic literature on whether and how great power competition might...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/isagsq/ksad058 2023-12-31T10:03:02+01:00 Polar Stars: Toward an Epistemological Understanding of Security Constellations and the Arctic Case Fakhoury, Renato 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad058 https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article-pdf/3/4/ksad058/53401389/ksad058.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Global Studies Quarterly volume 3, issue 4 ISSN 2634-3797 General Medicine journal-article 2023 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksad058 2023-12-06T08:52:55Z Abstract The reemergence of great power competition, seen most significantly in the tension over Taiwan between the People’s Republic of China and the United States and in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has sparked interest in the Arctic literature on whether and how great power competition might be emerging in the region. State-centric frameworks have emerged as the primary analytical frameworks within this burgeoning literature. While they offer important insights, the dynamics of security in the region make state-based appraisals limited. Because the Arctic region is a frontier, normative structures upon which state-centric paradigms are predicated—such as state sovereignty—hold less sway than in more traditional arenas of great power competition. As a result, a range of subnational and supranational actors and organizations play a more significant role in terms of security processes and outcomes. Thus, a more comprehensive model of security analysis is needed to understand the drivers of security in the Artic region. To that end, in this article, I analyze the main securitizing moves in the Arctic region, arguing that they incorporate different levels of analysis and present broad degrees of comprehensiveness. I turn to security constellation theory, hitherto a relatively underdeveloped approach that nonetheless offers the potential to accommodate the multifaceted security dynamics of the region. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Oxford University Press (via Crossref) Global Studies Quarterly 3 4 |
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Abstract The reemergence of great power competition, seen most significantly in the tension over Taiwan between the People’s Republic of China and the United States and in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has sparked interest in the Arctic literature on whether and how great power competition might be emerging in the region. State-centric frameworks have emerged as the primary analytical frameworks within this burgeoning literature. While they offer important insights, the dynamics of security in the region make state-based appraisals limited. Because the Arctic region is a frontier, normative structures upon which state-centric paradigms are predicated—such as state sovereignty—hold less sway than in more traditional arenas of great power competition. As a result, a range of subnational and supranational actors and organizations play a more significant role in terms of security processes and outcomes. Thus, a more comprehensive model of security analysis is needed to understand the drivers of security in the Artic region. To that end, in this article, I analyze the main securitizing moves in the Arctic region, arguing that they incorporate different levels of analysis and present broad degrees of comprehensiveness. I turn to security constellation theory, hitherto a relatively underdeveloped approach that nonetheless offers the potential to accommodate the multifaceted security dynamics of the region. |
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Polar Stars: Toward an Epistemological Understanding of Security Constellations and the Arctic Case |
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