Continuity and change in north European nordpolitikk in the wake of the cold war: the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (B.E.A.R.) ...

• Main Author: Mitcham, Paul
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Norway; Nordpol*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.48059; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/300984

This thesis aims to look at how the the northern policies (Nordpolitikk) of governments in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia have been affected by processes of continuity and change, with regard to the development of the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR) as a new entity. In studying, also, the forces shaping this region's emergence and political direction, the Nordpolitikk, especially of Norway, is assessed. The paper begins by examining the region geographically, and by explaining the changes which Russo-Nordic relations underwent in the final years of the Cold War. The effects that changes in the international political climate since have had upon the national policies of Northern Europe are also considered, and the reasoning behind the Barents cooperation scheme is explained both implicitly and explicitly within this context. The implications of the nascent 'region' are then discussed, both in terms of economic practicalities and political potentialities. From this theoretical basis, aspects of ...