Scotland: a touchstone for security in the High North?
Scotland’s geostrategic significance to the High North is being overlooked in debates about the potential impacts of ‘Scexit’, as well as wider discussions about the changing Arctic security environment. Duncan Depledge and Andreas Østhagen address this oversight by drawing attention to Scotland’s h...
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ftloughboroughun:oai:figshare.com:article/18667607 2023-05-15T14:59:36+02:00 Scotland: a touchstone for security in the High North? Duncan Depledge Andreas Østhagen 2022-03-15T00:00:00Z https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Scotland_a_touchstone_for_security_in_the_High_North_/18667607 unknown 2134/18667607.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Scotland_a_touchstone_for_security_in_the_High_North_/18667607 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Uncategorized Political Science Text Journal contribution 2022 ftloughboroughun 2022-03-24T00:02:09Z Scotland’s geostrategic significance to the High North is being overlooked in debates about the potential impacts of ‘Scexit’, as well as wider discussions about the changing Arctic security environment. Duncan Depledge and Andreas Østhagen address this oversight by drawing attention to Scotland’s historic role in contributing to the defence of NATO’s ‘northern flank’ and analysing how this is being resurrected in response to new challenges emerging in the High North. They conclude that there are some specific challenges that policymakers should address as the independence debate continues: most importantly, the potential for a ‘gap’ to be created in the regional security architecture of the High North. Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper Arctic Loughborough University: Figshare Andreas ENVELOPE(-60.729,-60.729,-64.008,-64.008) Arctic Østhagen ENVELOPE(18.428,18.428,68.906,68.906) |
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Scotland’s geostrategic significance to the High North is being overlooked in debates about the potential impacts of ‘Scexit’, as well as wider discussions about the changing Arctic security environment. Duncan Depledge and Andreas Østhagen address this oversight by drawing attention to Scotland’s historic role in contributing to the defence of NATO’s ‘northern flank’ and analysing how this is being resurrected in response to new challenges emerging in the High North. They conclude that there are some specific challenges that policymakers should address as the independence debate continues: most importantly, the potential for a ‘gap’ to be created in the regional security architecture of the High North. |
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Scotland: a touchstone for security in the High North? |
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