The Arctic Economic Council (AEC) is a new independent body established between the members of the Arctic Council (AC), the eight Arctic states, and the six Indigenous Peoples Organizations appointed Permanent Participants. The newly established AEC held its first meeting between September 1st and 3rd in Iqaluit, Canada.
“Development for the people of the North”
The AEC is meant to foster sustainable development by supporting economic development, environmental protection, and...
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- 08.09.2014 17:57:00
The Arctic Council diplomats gathered in Yellowknife, Canada, from the 25th to the 27th of March to discuss high-level political issues concerning the Arctic. The work of the Arctic Council continues, but the echo of the events that occurred in Crimea cannot be ignored. How is Arctic cooperation responding to this unprecedented crisis in Russian-Western relations? What will happen to Arctic cooperation? Is the rise of tension leading to a security dilemma?
The Yellowknife meeting
The Senior...
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- 14.04.2014 10:43:00
The U.S. is going to chair the Arctic Council in 2015. This prospect, together with the current open confrontation in Ukraine, raises some questions concerning the future of U.S.-Russia cooperation in the Arctic. We asked Pavel Gudev, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about the agenda for the upcoming years.
In the current situation, bilateral relations between the U.S. and Russia run the risk of becoming...
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- 19.03.2014 13:14:00
... cooperation is a must to face new and old challenges. As a matter of fact, even if the Arctic states aim at strengthening their rights and their uncontested influence on the management of the Arctic, the Arctic agenda calls for a unitary strategy of international cooperation. The prospect of new navigable routes in the Central Arctic Ocean shows how cooperation will be in everyone's interest. The international legal framework provided by the 1982 Convention on the Law of theSea set out a framework ...
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- 04.03.2014 11:24:00
