The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing profound change. As the sea ice melts, a result of accelerating climate change, global governance has become vital. In this, the third of three volumes, the latest research and analysis from the world's leading Arctic research body - the Fridtjof Nansen Institute - is brought together for the first time. Arctic Governance: Norway, Russia and Asia investigates the foreign policy discourses of Arctic governance, specifically as regarding international relations and competing interests between Norway, Russia and various Asian states.

IntroductionPart I Norway1 Norway's Approach to the Arctic: Policies and DiscourseGeir Hønneland and Leif Christian Jensen2 Actors, Strategies and Networks in a New Bipolar Geopolitical Research- and Policy Agenda: The Case of NorwayLeif Christian Jensen and Svein Vigeland Rottem3 Soft Law, Solid Implementation? Norwegian follow-up of Arctic Council RecommendationsIda Folkestad Soltvedt4 How Arctic Science Travels: POPs, Norway and the Stockholm ConventionSvein Vigeland RottemPart II Russia5 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Rush for the North PoleGeir Hønneland6 Space and Timing: Why was the Barents Sea Delimitation Dispute Resolved in 2010?Arild Moe, Daniel Fjærtoft and Indra Øverland7 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Delimitation Line in the Barents SeaGeir Hønneland8 Russia's Revised Arctic Seabed SubmissionØystein JensenPart III Asian States9 Asia in the Arctic: Policies, Stakes, and InvolvementOlav Schram Stokk10 Coming of age? Asian Arctic research, 2004-13Iselin Stensdal11 Much Ado about Something? China in Arctic Resource Development: Greenland and the Isua Iron-ore ProjectIselin Stensdal12 China's Climate Policy: Does an Arctic Dimension Exist?Gørild HeggelundEpilogueBibliographyIndex