Introduction:Arctic International Relations in a Widened Security Perspective

• Published in: Politik
• Main Authors: Jacobsen, Marc, Herrmann, Victoria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfSocialSciences; Faculty of Social Sciences; Arctic; Security; International Relations; International Politics; Securitization; Copenhagen School; Discourse analysis; English School
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/introduction(7a4ae266-dd9a-4473-b922-7ae140c0478c).html; https://doi.org/10.7146/politik.v20i3.97174; https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/188532482/Introduction_Arctic_International_Relations_in_a_Widened_Security_Perspective.pdf

This special issue of Politik aims to widen the debate on Arctic security relations through a more comprehensive dialogue inclusive of the many different types of security, their interactions, and their challenges by using the theoretical approach of the Copenhagen School. A better understanding of security dynamics in the circumpolar North today demands a critical analysis of those changes through a multidisciplinary and multi-modal lens. Each chapter in this special issue provides one layer of that multimodal lens of Arctic security that, together, weave a complex web of change. This special issue therefore continues to move the discourse of polar security beyond – but not excluding – the conventional debates of military capabilities and state sovereignty towards a more comprehensive definition of security, including its interacting environmental, economic, political, health and cultural dimensions.