Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space

Busch, Aslak Veierud

doi:10.1080/14650045.2021.1963956

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“…The way the GPC narrative is employed in the analysis of the Arctic region suffers from several flaws, the most important being that it failed to acknowledge the complexity of rivalry and cooperation in the Arctic (Wilson Rowe, 2020). By focusing solely on the United States-Russia-China triad, disputes between Norway and the European Union about Svalbard, or the Canada-United States dispute over the Beaufort Sea or the Northwest Passage, are not addressed at all (Busch, 2023).…”

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“…We will then investigate when the great power competition narrative was first applied to the Arctic region, those responsible for advocating it, and how the emergence of this narrative was argued to be justified by its proponents. As such, this article will contribute to the literature analysing the ways in which different actors popularize discourses about the Arctic region, whether they are scientists (Wood-Donnelly & Bartels, 2022), media outlets (Pincus & Ali, 2016) or states (Wilson Rowe, 2013;Busch, 2023). Of course, analysing the potential for conflicts, rivalries, and tensions in the Arctic region is nothing new, especially in the era of climate change.…”

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‘Great Power Competition’ and the Arctic: Origin and Evolution in Media, Governmental and Research Institutes Discourses

Landriault,

LaFortune

2023

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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This article seeks to further understanding of the emergence and use of the great power competition (GPC) narrative in the Arctic. Using data gathered between 2010 and 2021 by Factiva, the first part of the analysis identifies the emergence and evolving uses of the GPC term, finding that media outlets played a pivotal role in relaying and keeping this narrative alive in public discourse even after its use subsided in governmental discourse. The analysis then moves to track the GPC discourse with reference to the Arctic specifically; it finds that while it emerged later than the general narrative and originated in the media, usage in this context did not peak concurrently with its use in discussion of global geopolitics or with potentially relevant current events. The second part of the analysis examines how media outlets, government documents, and research institutes understand GPC in the Arctic. We found that the great power competition narrative helped to resurrect discourses of Arctic fear and risk after their waning in the first half of the 2010s. The nature of GPC in the Arctic took familiar contours, being for the most part tied to fears, most conspicuously raised in the early 2000s, regarding resource exploitation, shipping lanes, and militarization. Data is largely from the United States, but contains English sources from American allies, as well as Russia and China.

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‘Great Power Competition’ and the Arctic: Origin and Evolution in Media, Governmental and Research Institutes Discourses

Landriault,

LaFortune

2023

Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies

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Picturing the Arctic: digital imagery and the prospect of using search engines to collect data for interpretative political research

Busch

2022

Political Research Exchange

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Political geography I: Blue geopolitics

Jones

2024

Progress in Human Geography

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This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies of oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories of sovereignty, territory, and borders focused on terrestrial politics, the significant impact of climate change resulted in a new focus on the role oceans place in global environmental and political systems. At the same time, the enclosure of over 40 percent of the oceans as territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, and extended continental shelves through the Convention on the Law of the Sea produced burgeoning literature on maritime borders and conflicts. The report proposes the concept of blue geopolitics to capture an oceanic turn in political geography theories.

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Tall Tales from the High North: Contested Discourses of the Arctic as a Political Space

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Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

‘Great Power Competition’ and the Arctic: Origin and Evolution in Media, Governmental and Research Institutes Discourses

‘Great Power Competition’ and the Arctic: Origin and Evolution in Media, Governmental and Research Institutes Discourses

Picturing the Arctic: digital imagery and the prospect of using search engines to collect data for interpretative political research

Political geography I: Blue geopolitics

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