Relations between Norway and Russia : perspective and analysis over a regional dynamic in the Anthropocene era

• Main Author: Vidal, Florian
• Other Authors: Sorbonne Paris Cité, Garcin, Thierry
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Barents; Anthropocène; Arctique; Russie; Gouvernance; Norvège; Dynamique des systèmes; Arctic; Norway; Russia; Governance; System Dynamics; demo; socio; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Arctic Council; Arctique*; barents region; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB082

This dissertation aims to study and analyze key dynamics between Norway and Russia in the Arctic region. Under the Anthropocene paradigm, this research keeps an interdisciplinary approach. The Barents region is a relevant case regarding structural issues that our thermo-industrial civilization drove such as climate change, energy policy, militarization and resources depletion. Besides, it highlights increasing interests from world powers concerning the Polar region. In the first instance, China has established key partnerships in the region including Norway and Russia. Furthermore, this dissertation pays attention on core issues between these two countries such as fisheries, nuclear safety, relations over the Svalbard Archipelago or even the cross-border cooperation. It will introduce and discuss how both countries have managed their cooperation in a safety area far from global geopolitics dynamics. This bilateral dynamic started in 1993, after the Cold War, through the establishment of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC). This intergovernmental organization shaped the regional development in the Northern part of Europe. For 25 years, local stakeholders in the Barents region demonstrated their abilities to mitigate and maintain this original governance. Indeed, the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 and the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation opened up a major rift between the Western countries and Russia. In the light of this geopolitical shift, we discuss the resiliency of this bilateral relations as the international system gets volatile and disturbed. Finally, our purpose is to rise new methodical approach in International Relations as Earth System Dynamics (ESD) and Human System Dynamics (HSD) appear to be on a collision course through the XXIst century. In that respect, the relations between Norway and Russia, as energy powerhouses, hold a very specific position. On the one hand, both are a strong energy supplier to the rest of the European continent. On the other hand, as the international system is ...