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The politics of security and international law in Norway's Arctic waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2009

Øystein Jensen  and
Svein Vigeland Rottem
Øystein Jensen
Affiliation:
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, P.O. Box 326, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17, 1326 Lysaker, Norway ([email protected])
Svein Vigeland Rottem
Affiliation:
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, P.O. Box 326, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17, 1326 Lysaker, Norway ([email protected])
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Abstract

Security policy challenges in the high north should be approached both as an insight into the international legal framework on which co-existence in the region rests and as a sober realpolitik analysis. Against this background, the objective of this article is to paint a more balanced picture of security policy options in Norway's Arctic waters, rather than observing contemporary general discourse on the topic might suggest. Management of marine resources, delimitation of unresolved maritime boundaries and relations with Russia in the northern maritime areas are used as examples to substantiate our main thesis which is that dispassionate diplomacy is more likely to resolve disputes than is military confrontation.

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Polar Record , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 75 - 83
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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