Global Arctic

Matthias Finger is a Professor Emeritus from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL), a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, a full professor at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ) and a research professor at Northern Arctic Federal University (NaRFU), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Gunnar Rekvig is an Associate Professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway, and the 2019-2021 Nansen Professor at the University of Akureyri (UNAK), Iceland. He was an Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Tokyo, Japan (2018-2019).

• Chapter 1. Introduction (Matthias Finger and Gunnar Rekvig).- Part I: Evolving images and perceptions.- Chapter 2. Indigenous peoples of the Circumpolar North (Yvon Csonka).- Chapter 3. Arctic cities – pioneers of industrialization: More than “mining towns” (Nadezhda Zamyatina).- Chapter 4. Arctic as a new strategic region in the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1930s and transformation of the Arctic science (Alexander Saburov).- Chapter 5. Norway in the Cold War – a contemporary case for today (Lars Saunes).- Chapter 6. The Post-Cold War Arctic (Lassi Heininen).- Chapter 7. The Arctic as the last frontier: tourism (Edward H. Huijbens).- Chapter 8. A Primary Node of the Global Economy: China and the Arctic (Liisa Kauppila).- Part II: Geography, environment, and climate.- Chapter 9. Climate effects of other pollutants – Short-Lived Climate Forcers and the Arctic (Kaarle Kupiainen, Mark Flanner and Sabine Eckhardt).- Chapter 10. Permafrost and climate feedbacks (Benjamin W. Abbott).- Chapter 11. Impacts of global warming on Arctic biota (Mathilde Le Moullec and  Morgan Lizabeth Bender).- Chapter 12. Pollution and monitoring in the Arctic (Tatiana Sorokina).- Part III: Economics and geopolitics.- Chapter 13. The quest for the ultimate resources: oil, gas, and coal (Andrey Krivorotov).- Chapter 14. Arctic fisheries in a changing climate (Franz Mueter).- Chapter 15. Infrastructure projects in the global Arctic (Alexander Pelyasov).- Chapter 16. New trade routes (Mariia Kobzeva).- Chapter 17. The Arctic and unsustainable Development (Matthias Finger).- Part IV: Governance.- Chapter 18. Between Resource Frontier and Self-Determination: Colonial and Postcolonial Developments in the Arctic (Peter Schweitzer).- Chapter 19. Understanding Cold War Trust-Building Between Norway and the Soviet Union (Gunnar Rekvig).- Chapter 20. Regional Governance: The Case of the Barents Region (Florian Vidal).- Chapter 21. The Arctic Council at 25: Incremental building of a more ambitious inter-governmental forum (Timo Koivurova and Malgorzata Smieszek).- Chapter 22. The European Union and Arctic Security Governance (Andreas Raspotnik).- Chapter 23. Global Conventions and Regional Cooperation: The Multifaceted Dynamics of Arctic Governance (Cécile Pélaudeix and Christoph Humrich).- Chapter 24. Arctic Order(s) under Sino-American bi-polarity (Rasmus Bertelsen).- Index.