Abstract
This chapter is about the environment as a special feature of Arctic geopolitics and security. The focus is on (long-range) pollution, as the first trigger of global changes in the Arctic, and ‘environmental awakening’ as a consequent reaction. This is also a retrospective study on ‘nuclear safety’ in the European Arctic, as a part of ‘environmental awakening’ and environmental politics in the North, and how it caused a shift in security premises of the Arctic states. Discourses of critical security studies - the risk society theory and ecological security - are applied to broaden our understanding of narrow traditional – national, competitive, military – security towards comprehensive one, as well as to analyze and illustrate changes in both Arctic security nexus and Arctic geopolitics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Climate Change and Arctic Security: Searching for a Paradigm Shift |
| Editors | Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot |
| Place of Publication | Cham |
| Publisher | Palgrave Pivot |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 107-129 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-030-20230-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-030-20229-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| MoEC publication type | B2 Part of a book or another research book |
Keywords
- Environment
- Security
- Security premises
- POLLUTION
- Nuclear safety
- Environmental awakening
- Climate change
Field of science
- International political science
- Environmental sciences