The short answer: Arctic Council diplomacy is strained because the Council’s only decision rule — consensus among all eight Arctic states, including Russia — stopped being workable after February 2022,
On 14 March 2025, the AMAP secretariat in Tromsø circulated a draft executive summary of its short-lived climate forcers assessment to the Arctic Council’s Senior Arctic Officials. The cover note
Search and rescue in polar waters is the coordinated effort to locate and aid persons in distress in the maritime Arctic and Antarctic. It operates under extreme environmental conditions, across
How Narrative Architecture Shapes Arctic Governance Outcomes: The Case for Structured Institutional Storytelling In March 2024, Norway’s delegation to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf received a
The Arctic stopped being a place defined mainly by ice and distance some time ago. It is now a continuously watched space, and satellite surveillance has become a structural part
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When Norway assumed the Arctic Council chairmanship in May 2023, the handover ran on documentation. Senior Arctic Officials exchanged binders—working group terms of reference, accumulated assessment cycles, consent records from
Introduction: The End of Nordic Strategic Ambiguity When Finland deposited its instrument of accession with the United States government on 4 April 2023, it did more than join an alliance.
Introduction: A Geopolitical Fault Line Shifts The Baltic Sea has always been a chessboard for strategic competition, but Finland’s entry into NATO on 4 April 2023 marks a genuine structural