National Security and the Evolving Issues of Arctic Environment and Cooperation

Abstract

In the post Cold War years world society has striven to foster new modes of international cooperation and security. This endeavor has taken on a pronounced course in the Arctic and is promoted through four sets of interrelated, but highly incremental processes¹: a reconceptualization of regional security, i.e. a distinction has been made between military and civil security, civilianization, i.e. the multiplying of cooperative regimes in civil issue-areas, regionalization of decision-making processes and an intentional mobilization of non-state actors in Arctic policy formation².