Securing anticipatory geographies: Finland’s Arctic strategy and the geopolitics of international competitiveness
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of Finland’s Arctic strategy, providing a perspective on contemporary ‘Arctic geopolitics’ outside the dominant emphasis on the territorial politics of the Arctic Ocean coastal states. Concurrently, this serves as an empirical framework for interpreting the c...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe202001233185 2023-07-30T04:00:19+02:00 Securing anticipatory geographies: Finland’s Arctic strategy and the geopolitics of international competitiveness Väätänen, V. (Vesa) 2021 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202001233185 eng eng Informa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geopolitics on 22 Feb 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14650045.2019.1580267. info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2021 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:57:52Z Abstract This paper presents an analysis of Finland’s Arctic strategy, providing a perspective on contemporary ‘Arctic geopolitics’ outside the dominant emphasis on the territorial politics of the Arctic Ocean coastal states. Concurrently, this serves as an empirical framework for interpreting the contextual de- and re-territorialising manifestations of geopolitical state strategies that are increasingly about securing competitive advantages, rather than exerting or extending territorial control over resources. By deploying the notion of anticipatory geographies this paper shows that Finland’s Arctic strategy documents have produced two intertwined promotional visions that are predicated on the discourses of international competitiveness and which relate Finland to the Arctic region. These are 1) Finland as a key provider of solutions to problems in Arctic development and 2) Finland as an attractive territorial node in ‘Arctic flows’. These anticipatory geographies are facilitated in practice through the political consolidation of ‘Arctic’ markets for Finnish exports and through infrastructure projects purportedly enhancing the position of Finland within various ‘economic flows’. Together, these notions illuminate the geopolitical dimension of attempts to secure competitive advantages and how this relates to the processes of state spatial transformation through de- and re-territorialisation, especially beyond the recently much emphasised context of city-regionalism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Jultika - University of Oulu repository Arctic Arctic Ocean |
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Abstract This paper presents an analysis of Finland’s Arctic strategy, providing a perspective on contemporary ‘Arctic geopolitics’ outside the dominant emphasis on the territorial politics of the Arctic Ocean coastal states. Concurrently, this serves as an empirical framework for interpreting the contextual de- and re-territorialising manifestations of geopolitical state strategies that are increasingly about securing competitive advantages, rather than exerting or extending territorial control over resources. By deploying the notion of anticipatory geographies this paper shows that Finland’s Arctic strategy documents have produced two intertwined promotional visions that are predicated on the discourses of international competitiveness and which relate Finland to the Arctic region. These are 1) Finland as a key provider of solutions to problems in Arctic development and 2) Finland as an attractive territorial node in ‘Arctic flows’. These anticipatory geographies are facilitated in practice through the political consolidation of ‘Arctic’ markets for Finnish exports and through infrastructure projects purportedly enhancing the position of Finland within various ‘economic flows’. Together, these notions illuminate the geopolitical dimension of attempts to secure competitive advantages and how this relates to the processes of state spatial transformation through de- and re-territorialisation, especially beyond the recently much emphasised context of city-regionalism. |
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Securing anticipatory geographies: Finland’s Arctic strategy and the geopolitics of international competitiveness |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Geopolitics on 22 Feb 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14650045.2019.1580267. |
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