1. New statement on Canada's Arctic policy
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Last month Canada published a new statement on its Arctic foreign policy.The statement articulates Canada's priorities in the Arctic region and builds on four pillars:  Exercising sovereignty ...

2. U.S. strategic interests in the High North
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... conference included a closed session workshop focusing on NATO’s role in the Arctic, where researchers and government representatives from the US, Norway, Canada, Denmark and Russia discussed whether NATO ...

3. Strategy documents links:
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US Arctic Region Policy, 2009 (in English) Russian strategy for the Arctic, 2008 ( in Russian) The European Union and the Arctic Region, 2008 The Northern Dimension of Canada's foreign ...

4. Books, chapters and reports 2008
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... Prospects for Canada's North", Canada and the Changing International Arctic: At the Crossroads of Cooperation and Conflict, Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) 2008 Whitney Lackenbauer, ...

5. Books, chapters and reports 2009
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... Hubert: “Canada and the Changing International Arctic: At the crossroads of cooperation and conflict", in Abele, Courchene, Seidle & St-Hilaire (eds.): Northern Exposure: Peoples, ...

6. Articles and papers 2009
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... of Polar Law 1 2009 Olav Schram Stokke: "Arctic Environmental Governance: Are New Regimes Needed?", The Circle, 1, 2009 Rob Hubert: "Canada and Arctic Ocean governance", The Circle, 1, 2009 ...

7. Articles and papers 2008
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... Whitney Lackenbauer: “Canada’s Arctic Interests and Responsibilities,” Behind the Headlines 65/4.  ...

8. In the media 2009
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Whitney Lackenbauer: “Canada and the Changing Circumpolar World,” podcast for the education program of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Globe and Mail, 8 December 2009. ...

9. In the media 2008
(Publications/Publications)

... W.Lackenbauer: "The promise of the North: Canada can no longer squander opportunities to develop the Arctic", The Record, 21 July 2008  ...

10. Other relevant publications 2000-2008
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... Maritime Security: The return to Canada's third ocean", Canadian Military Journal, vol 8, no 2, Summer 2007 Moe, Arild (FNI): “Sjtokman-beslutningen: Forklaringer og implikasjoner", Nordisk Østforum ...

11. Events 2009
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Katarzyna Zysk: "Arctic security in the 21st century: The view from Russia and Canada", The Department of War Studies, King’s College London, University of London, 25 November 2009. Harald ...

12. Events 2010
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... and Realities: What Future for Russia?” Conference of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, The Academic Outreach Programme, Ottawa, Canada, 6–7 May 2010. Katarzyna Zysk, Heather Conley and ...

13. Arctic summit in Canada
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News: 29 March the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs hosted a five-nation Arctic summit. The Foreign ministers from the Arctic states Canada, Norway, Russia, Denmark and the U.S. gathered in ...

14. Canada and the Arctic:
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... vindication?  See our short account of Canadian perspectives on the Arctic. The renaming of the passage can be attributed to the ongoing conflict between Canada and other countries, most ...

15. Will US navy Arctic roadmap increase tension?
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... conference in 2008. There, the states surrounding the Arctic Ocean (Canada, Denmark, Norway Russia and the United States) agreed to resolve any differences in United Nations Convention on the Law of the ...

16. Arctic Security Policy and Law in an Age of Climate Change
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... (Canada, United States, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland) and near Arctic countries, as well as speakers from Asia. They addressed Arctic security issues for Norway, Denmark, ...

17. Climate change and environmental protection
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... government officials from the eight Arctic nations (Canada, United States, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland) and near Arctic countries, as well as speakers from Asia. They addressed ...

18. Defining an interest: the European Union and the High North
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...  External reasons: Growing economic importance of Arctic Increased environmental importance Russia’s activism in region US, Norway & Canada developing Arctic policies, later Russia Greenland ...

19. The United States in the 21 century Arctic
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... limited, which was underscored at the Ilulissat conference in 2008. There, the states surrounding the Arctic Ocean (Canada, Denmark, Norway Russia and the United States) agreed to resolve any differences ...

20. Actors and patterns of cooperation and conflict
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... communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. Member States of the Arctic Council are Canada, ...