Edited by Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher and Andreas Østhagen, Research Director, Arctic and Ocean Politics, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

• Contents1 The Nordic states and Arctic security: a new Nordicbalance or torn between the European Union and NATO? 1Andreas Raspotnik and Andreas Østhagen2 Spotlighting the Kingdom: Greenland, Denmark andthe Arctic turns of the EU and NATO 16Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard and Lise WiederholtChristensen3 Finland in the Arctic: from détente to defence 35Sanna Kopra and Harri Mikkola4 In and of the Arctic: security in Iceland 50Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir and Guðbjörg Ríkey Th.Hauksdóttir5 Norway’s delicate Arctic balancing act 71Andreas Østhagen and Iselin Németh Winther6 Sweden’s Arctic priorities: balancing domestic,European Union, and NATO expectations 92Nima Khorrami and Jason C. Moyer7 Choose your own adventure: the European Union andArctic security? 111Andreas Raspotnik and Gabriella Gricius8 NATO in the Arctic: misunderstood and misrepresented 132Alina Bykova, Paal Sigurd Hilde, Duncan Depledge,Andreas Østhagen and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Edited by Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher and Andreas Østhagen, Research Director, Arctic and Ocean Politics, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

• Contents1 The Nordic states and Arctic security: a new Nordicbalance or torn between the European Union and NATO? 1Andreas Raspotnik and Andreas Østhagen2 Spotlighting the Kingdom: Greenland, Denmark andthe Arctic turns of the EU and NATO 16Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard and Lise WiederholtChristensen3 Finland in the Arctic: from détente to defence 35Sanna Kopra and Harri Mikkola4 In and of the Arctic: security in Iceland 50Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir and Guðbjörg Ríkey Th.Hauksdóttir5 Norway’s delicate Arctic balancing act 71Andreas Østhagen and Iselin Németh Winther6 Sweden’s Arctic priorities: balancing domestic,European Union, and NATO expectations 92Nima Khorrami and Jason C. Moyer7 Choose your own adventure: the European Union andArctic security? 111Andreas Raspotnik and Gabriella Gricius8 NATO in the Arctic: misunderstood and misrepresented 132Alina Bykova, Paal Sigurd Hilde, Duncan Depledge,Andreas Østhagen and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Edited by Andreas Raspotnik, Senior Researcher and Andreas Østhagen, Research Director, Arctic and Ocean Politics, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway

• Contents1 The Nordic states and Arctic security: a new Nordicbalance or torn between the European Union and NATO? 1Andreas Raspotnik and Andreas Østhagen2 Spotlighting the Kingdom: Greenland, Denmark andthe Arctic turns of the EU and NATO 16Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard and Lise WiederholtChristensen3 Finland in the Arctic: from détente to defence 35Sanna Kopra and Harri Mikkola4 In and of the Arctic: security in Iceland 50Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir and Guðbjörg Ríkey Th.Hauksdóttir5 Norway’s delicate Arctic balancing act 71Andreas Østhagen and Iselin Németh Winther6 Sweden’s Arctic priorities: balancing domestic,European Union, and NATO expectations 92Nima Khorrami and Jason C. Moyer7 Choose your own adventure: the European Union andArctic security? 111Andreas Raspotnik and Gabriella Gricius8 NATO in the Arctic: misunderstood and misrepresented 132Alina Bykova, Paal Sigurd Hilde, Duncan Depledge,Andreas Østhagen and P. Whitney Lackenbauer