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Breaking Through

Breaking Through

Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic

Edited by Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

278 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 18.00 mm, 5 figures

Paperback
9781487523527
Published: February 2021

£21.99

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Globalization, climate change, and increased geopolitical competition are having a profound impact on the Arctic, affecting how we understand both sovereignty and security within the region. In Breaking Through, a diverse group of emerging and established scholars examine Arctic sovereignty and security, rarely examined together, and present a theoretically robust study of Arctic sovereignty and security in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Throughout the volume, readers will discover fresh perspectives on under-studied dimensions of Arctic sovereignty, including: environmental changes, foreign and security policies, and how Indigenous peoples interact to produce different meanings of sovereignty and security in the Arctic. Drawing on extensive primary and secondary research, Breaking Through offers important and timely conclusions for policymakers, advocates, scholars, and students.

An Introduction
Wilfrid Greaves and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

1. In Search of Polar Sovereignty, 1900–1959
Peter Kikkert

2. The Gentlemen’s Agreement: Sovereignty, Defence, and Canadian–American Diplomacy in the Arctic
Adam Lajeunesse

3. Arctic Security and Sovereignty through a Media Lens: From a Pile of Frozen Rocks to the Bottom of the Sea
Mathieu Landriault

4. Understanding Arctic Security: A Defence of Traditional Security Analysis
Rob Huebert

5. National Security and the High North: Post–Cold War Arctic Security Policy in Norway
Wilfrid Greaves

6. Russia and Arctic Security: Inward-Looking Realities
Alexander Sergunin

7. Toward a Comprehensive Approach to Canadian Security and Safety in the Arctic
P. Whitney Lackenbauer

8. One Arctic? Northern Security in Canada and Norway
Andreas Østhagen

9. Understanding the Recent History of Energy Security in the Arctic
Petra Dolata

10. Human Insecurities of Marginalized Peoples in the Arctic: The Cost of Arctic and Nordic Exceptionalism
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

11. Addressing Inequalities in the Arctic: Food Security in Nunavut
Natalia Loukacheva

12. The Transformative Power of "Security" Talk
Frank Sejersen

Afterword: Sovereign Futures in an Insecure Arctic
Wilfrid Greaves

Contributors
Index

Will Greaves is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria.

P. Whitney Lackenbauer is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Study of the Canadian North and a professor in the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University.

"The book presents rigorous and thought provoking chapters, making significant contributions about framing of sovereignty and notions of security in countries other than Canada. The book will be of interest to Arctic scholars, particularly in Canada, in addition to less specialized readers interested in Canadian foreign policy or broad regional politics."
- Andrew Chater, Brescia University College (Security Dialogue)