Power Institutions and International Collaboration on the Kola Peninsula

• Published in: The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies
• Main Author: Hønneland, Geir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Centre d'études et de recherche sur les sociétés et les institutions post-soviétiques 2006
• Subjects: Russia; Power Institutions; Regional Authorities; International Cooperation; scipo; droit; Kola Peninsula; Murmansk; Norway; kola peninsula; Murmansk Oblast
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/456

The article discusses how international cooperative projects have contributed to increased interaction between civilian authorities and the military or other power agencies in Murmansk Oblast. The cases of fisheries enforcement, nuclear safety and the fight against communicable diseases, especially tuberculosis in prisons, are reviewed. The main lesson is that international collaboration ventures can sometimes provide arenas for initiating new coordination patterns that would otherwise not have evolved. Occasionally, the international project is simply the pretext necessary for changing a situation that both civilian and power agencies view as irrational. Whether these changes are fundamental and structural, however, remains to be seen.