International Politics in the Arctic: Formation of the Regional Order and its Development

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26780104
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University (2016); Nihon University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Ohnishi Fujio 北海道大学, 北極域研究センター, 准教授 (20542278)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 北極国際秩序 / 北極協調体制 / 北極評議会 / イルリサット宣言 / 気候変動 / 地政学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For the last twenty-five years, Arctic eight states (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and United States) have formed an Arctic concert system based on international cooperation in environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate change. Although it once faced crisis for its survival that had arisen, including geopolitical shifts resulting from climate change, economic advances by non-Arctic states、the Arctic Concert system managed to survive through incorporating new cooperation for marine safety and business respectively. However, deteriorating relations between the West and Russia are especially worrying, casting dark shadows onto the Arctic concert system in future.

Free Research Field

国際関係論