Norway and Russia in the Arctic: New Cold War Contamination?
The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start...
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ftjarlp:oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/1334 2023-05-15T14:18:43+02:00 Norway and Russia in the Arctic: New Cold War Contamination? Wilhelmsen, Julie Gjerde, Kristian Lundby 2018-12-19 application/pdf text/html application/zip application/xml https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v9.1334 eng eng University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334/2947 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334/2948 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334/2949 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334/2950 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1334 doi:10.23865/arctic.v9.1334 Copyright (c) 2018 Julie Wilhelmsen, Kristian Lundby Gjerde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 CC-BY-NC Arctic Review; Vol 9 (2018); 382-407 2387-4562 Arctic Russia Norway security discourse New Cold War info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2018 ftjarlp https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v9.1334 2022-03-24T06:35:03Z The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start from the theoretical premise that states are not pre-constituted political entities, but are constantly in the making. How Russia views its own role and how it views other actors in the Arctic changes over time, calling for differing approaches. That holds true for Norway as well. To clarify the premises for interaction between Russia and Norway in the Arctic, we scrutinize changes in official discourse on Self and Other in the Arctic on both sides in the period 2012 to 2016, to establish what kind of policy mode—“realist,” “institutionalist,” or “diplomatic management”—has underlain the two countries’ official discourse in that period. Has Norway continued to pursue “balancing” policies undertaken in the realist mode with those in the diplomatic management mode? Which modes have characterized Russia’s approach toward Norway? Finding that realist-mode policies increasingly dominate on both sides, in the conclusion we discuss how the changing mode of the one state affects that of the other, and why a New Cold War is now spreading to the Arctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic Review on Law and Politics Arctic Norway Arctic Review on Law and Politics 9 0 382 |
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The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start from the theoretical premise that states are not pre-constituted political entities, but are constantly in the making. How Russia views its own role and how it views other actors in the Arctic changes over time, calling for differing approaches. That holds true for Norway as well. To clarify the premises for interaction between Russia and Norway in the Arctic, we scrutinize changes in official discourse on Self and Other in the Arctic on both sides in the period 2012 to 2016, to establish what kind of policy mode—“realist,” “institutionalist,” or “diplomatic management”—has underlain the two countries’ official discourse in that period. Has Norway continued to pursue “balancing” policies undertaken in the realist mode with those in the diplomatic management mode? Which modes have characterized Russia’s approach toward Norway? Finding that realist-mode policies increasingly dominate on both sides, in the conclusion we discuss how the changing mode of the one state affects that of the other, and why a New Cold War is now spreading to the Arctic. |
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