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This chapter provides a brief overview of the need for leadership in the contemporary Arctic. It considers how the process of Arctic governance has evolved over the past quarter century and how the Arctic Council has become a central actor in this endeavor. It looks at how recent Arctic Council Chairmanships have played significant roles in developing a response to pressing Arctic concerns. It notes, however, that the precise means by which successive chairs of the organization have advanced its work has rarely been examined or compared. This is the overall focus of this volume. Its individual chapter inquiries are noted and briefly summarized.
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The scholarly literature on leadership is extensive. Some of the more useful studies that have contributed to the perspectives contained within this volume include R.H. Axelrod (2010) Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations (second Edition). San Francisco, CA: Berret-Koehker Publishers; J. M. Burns (2003) Transforming Leadership. New York: Grove Press; G. Buseberg (2001) “Learning in Organizations and Public Policy” in Journal of Public Policy 21(2) 173–189; S. De Rue (2011) “Adaptive Leadership Theory: Leading and Following as a Complex Adaptive Process” in Organizational Behavior 31,125–150; Heifetz et al. (2009) The Practice of Adaptive Leadership. Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World. Boston: Harvard Business School; O. Young, “Political Leadership and Regime Formation: On the Development of Institutions in International Society” in. International Organization 45 (3) 281–308.
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Nord, D.C. (2019). Providing Leadership for the North. In: Nord, D. (eds) Leadership for the North. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03107-7_1
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