Squaring the Circle : The Arctic States, “Law of the Sea,” and the Arctic Ocean

• Main Author: Dodds, Klaus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
• Subjects: 290; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ilulissat; Arctic Council; Ilulissat Declaration; Law of the Sea
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57849

Two competing conceptions of the Arctic Ocean have circulated since the infamous planting of a Russian flag on the bottom of the seabed in 2007. Ideas of a “scramble for territory” depended on accepting that the Arctic Ocean was a terra nullius, that is, belonging to no one. The Danish-sponsored Ilu...