1. Summer reading on the Arctic
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... Sakhuja NATO and the EU in the North: What is at Stake in Current Strategy Development? by Alyson. J.K. Bailes See more publications here. Enjoy the read!   ...

2. U.S. strategic interests in the High North
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... event and included keynote introductions by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Norwegian State Secretary of Defence Espen Barth Eide. In her address, Senator ...

3. Books, chapters and reports 2009
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... and International Security University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 2009. Sven G. Holtsmark (red): "Security Prospects in the High North: geostrategic Thaw or Freeze?", NATO Defense ...

4. Other relevant publications 2010
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...  Derrick Z. Jackson: As the world's ice melts, the Navy's role grows, The Boston Globe, 7 July 2010 Alyson J. K. Bailes:  NATO and the EU in the North: What is at stake in current ...

5. Events 2009
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... 2 October 2009 Harald Hermansen Eie: "The High North and Energy Security", NATO Economic Committee, Brussels, 25 September 2009 Kristine Offerdal: "To what extent might Arctic energy ...

6. Events 2010
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... Arctic", NATO's Partnerships Symposium, Oberammergau, 21 January 2010.  ...

7. Participants-new
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...  Helene Forsland Widerberg Kristoffer Bjørklund IFS Programme Coordinator. Research Fellow. CV and contact details CV and contact details  ...

8. Russian national security strategy
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... deterrence and nuclear parity with the United States. The new strategy points at failure of the current global and regional security architecture, as it is disproportionately weighted in favour of NATO. ...

9. NATO ambassadors on study trip
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News: Six ambassadors of NATO-member countries went on a study trip in northern Norway after the NATO Parliamentary Assembly session in Oslo After the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Oslo, the Norwegian ...

10. Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)
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...  Research Fellow at IFS’ Department of International Security Policy. Studies the role of energy. IFS Programme Coordinator. CV and contact details CV and contact details  ...

11. Defining an interest: the European Union and the High North
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... balance within EU Failure of ND’s Arctic window Where to next? Institutional battles over Arctic: EU, AC, BEAC, NATO, UN The Russian question: what does Russia want in the region? The Greenland ...

12. The United States in the 21 century Arctic
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... in shaping US geopolitics of the Arctic in general, and the European High North in particular.   US relations with NATO are crucial, especially from a European and a Norwegian point of view. Seeing ...

13. Activities & events
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... level, public event and included keynote introductions by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Norwegian State Secretary of Defence Espen Barth Eide. In ...

14. Where is the "High North"?
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... of Norway, and it is not self-explanatory to foreigners. Accordingly, terminologically and conceptually, there is a distinct lack of shared understanding when Norwegians and non-Norwegians exchange views ...

15. Participants from partner Institutions
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... frode.liland[a]ifs.mil.no         Helene Forsland Widerberg           IFS Programme Coordinator hwiderberg[a]ifs.mil.no         The Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo (UiO) ...

16. Russia, Norway and the High North - past, present, future
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... the United States. The new strategy points at failure of the current global and regional security architecture, as it is disproportionately weighted in favour of NATO. It voices Russia’s long-standing ...

17. What is "geopolitics"?
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... strategy for containment of the USSR by a string of military alliances around the Eurasian Soviet core – ranging from NATO in the European north-west, CENTO in the Middle-East, SEATO in South-east Asia ...

18. Arctic strategy documents
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... and regional security architecture, as it is disproportionately weighted in favour of NATO. It voices Russia’s long-standing opposition to any future eastward enlargement of the Alliance and plans to move ...