Euroarctic Strategies and Synergies

Abstract

A comparative discussion is made of contemporary national and organisational strategies on Northern and Arctic Europe to identify common interests in the Euro-Arctic region and to evaluate how some of these interests may relate to the global context. This dialogue will be considered in relation to the post-Cold War transition from Realist to geoeconomic perspectives on the world. <p>

<p>My tentative conclusion is twofold. First, the social science communities committed to northern research do not receive as much credit and funding as they should for providing businesses, administrators, and various stakeholders with data and interpretations of use in their lobbyism and undertakings in the Arctic and Subarctic. Second, because the established organisations and multinational institutions now claiming expertise on the High North are mainly closed forums with little policy-maker turnover, there is room for more studies focussing the neglected issues of this part of the world. One way to fill these needs is to expand university-based research networks conducting diversified analyses and to facilitate their outreach.