In Christian Bueger, Elizabeth Mendenhall and Rebecca Strating (eds), The Politics of Global Ocean Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp. 195-226.
‘Geography is changing – even though we cannot change geography’ (Gahr Støre 2012). Speaking at an event highlighting the resource potential and related geopolitics of the Arctic to a room full of oil and gas executives in 2012, then-Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre wanted to underscore the dramatic changes taking place in the North and Norway’s related role. At the time, Arctic oil and gas prospects looked hopeful and relations in the region with Russia and China were still relatively amicable. The changing geography the Norwegian foreign minister was referring to was, of course, due to effects of climate change.
