Home  About FNI  Research  Publications  Staff  News & events  Contact		FNI NEWS FNI Book Assesses International Arctic Cooperation (02.01.2007) A new book edited by FNI researchers Olav Schram Stokke and Geir Hønneland and published by Routledge, assesses the impact of international Arctic cooperation. The post-Cold War era has seen an upsurge in interest in Arctic affairs. With new international regimes targeting Arctic issues at both the global and regional levels, the Northern areas seem set to play an increasingly prominent role in the domestic and foreign policies of the Arctic states and actors - not least Russia, the USA and the EU. Both editors are political scientists, and the book – International Cooperation and Arctic Governance: Regime Effectiveness and Northern Region Building – discusses Arctic cooperation from a distinctive political science viewpoint. It has been published in the Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics series. The book distinguishes between and focuses on three key kinds of impact: Effectiveness, defined as mitigation or removal of specific problems addressed by a regime; political mobilization, highlighting changes in the pattern of involvement and influence in decision making on Arctic affairs; and region building, understood as contributions by Arctic institutions to denser interactive or discursive connectedness among the inhabitants of the region. Empirically, the main focus is on three institutions: The Arctic Council, the Barents Euro-Arctic Region and the Council of the Baltic Sea States. Issue areas such as pollution, biodiversity, indigenous affairs, health and climate change are covered. Share: Further information:   Read more about FNI research on Polar and Russian affairs   Project homepage: International Collaboration in the Arctic   Contact Routledge for more information and orders Top		The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy, and resource management politics. The Institute maintains a multi-disciplinary approach, with main emphasis on political science, economics, and international law.
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