The New Geopolitics of the Arctic: Russia's and China's Evolving Role in the Region

Pézard, Stéphanie

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“…Moreover, the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China's Silk Road Fund have garnered stakes in Russia's Yamal liquid-natural gas project, which started operations in December 2017. This joint Russia/China cooperation has the potential to compel the expansion of the port in Arkhangelsk, on the White Sea, and a railway from the port to central Russia (Pezard 2018). Marlene Laruelle's (2020, 28) report on Russia's Arctic Policy in the lead-up to its chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021 states, "Moscow remains unable to imagine that there are structural impossibilities of designing a form of economic development that is not solely focused on exploiting minerals and fossil fuels, and which creates new human capital."…”

Section: Northeast Asia: Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean Interfacesmentioning

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Northeast Asia in regional perspective

2021

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Northeast Asia is a regional imaginary of limited capture among both academics and the general public. As a result, ongoing tensions relating to island claims, sea rights, borderlands, population mobilities, and resource access are too rarely considered from a Northeast Asian regional perspective. The region's parameters are also highly debated, with some conceptualizations restricted to Japan and the Korean Peninsula, while more expansive considerations include Russia, South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, and Mongolia. We suggest that in addition to these countries, even maritime border zones in the Asia-Pacific and Arctic might be included as part of Northeast Asia's extent. In an effort to advance scholarly research on Northeast Asia, this special issue brings together articles that critically interrogate the region's political, economic, cultural, and environmental dynamics and conditions. Articles approach the region as a whole or employ specific case studies pertinent to relations within and/or between its composite states, subregions, and stakeholders. This introduction brings into relief the region's unique history as an inter-imperial frontier and its role as an understudied European, Asian, and North American borderland. These broad themes require consideration of Northeast Asia as a site of mass migrations, increasing environmental fragility, tentative geo-economic integration, and enduring geopolitical contestation. The editors of this special issue aim for this collection of articles to advance Northeast Asia as both a subject and frame for varied modes of geographic inquiry.

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Section: Northeast Asia: Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean Interfacesmentioning

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2021

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“…Due to tensions triggered by its rapid political and economic growth elsewhere in the worldsystem, China has turned to Russia to facilitate its Arctic ambitions, which in turn is largely isolated economically due to international sanctions for its military actions against Georgia and Ukraine, and is unable to finance many of its own projects in the High North (Pezard 2018). In return for Arctic access, China has heavily invested in the build-up of Russia's Arctic region's infrastructure, and is a significant stakeholder in several high-profile Russian extraction projects, most prominent of which is the Yamal LNG project which has 30 percent Chinese ownership through the National Petroleum Corporation and the Silk Road Fund, in addition to covering two-thirds of the project's external lending needs (Stronski and Ng 2018).…”

Section: Hegemonic Rivalry In the Arctic: The Formation Of Competing Power Blocsmentioning

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The Evolving Arctic in the World-System

Lavengood

2021

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Global climate change’s continuing effect on the Arctic has brought about a fundamental shift in the region’s identity as it becomes an ever more active area in the world-system. Economic opportunities such as new shipping routes and a bounty of natural resources that were hitherto ice-locked are becoming accessible as the pace of climate change quickens, garnering increasing attention from actors around the world-system. This article explores the new geopolitical and economic realities of the Arctic through the lens of world-system analysis by examining the region’s budding role in the world-economy and emerging economic opportunities, its unique core-peripheral nature, and its potential to spark a regional hegemonic rivalry between NATO and a Sino-Russian partnership. This article aims introduce the evolving Arctic to world-systems studies and promote further research on the region using the theoretical framework.

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“…The discourses of fear and threat of foreign adversary or immediate neighbour are being used by some states to justify their own acts of increased military build-ups and domination in these regions. Such states are themselves making their own dominance by acting as a security guarantor to these emerging challenges (termed as threats) in the Arctic (Pezard, 2018). Russia’s assertion of dominance over the governance of NSR, by calling it as a ‘national single transport communication of the Russian Federation’ (Russian Federation, 2008) in its Arctic strategy and imposition of strict enforcement measures to regulate shipping in the region, is noteworthy.…”

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‘De-Securitising the Arctic’ in Climate Change: An Indian Perspective

Sharma

2021

India Quarterly

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The rapidly transforming Arctic has led to rethink the concept of security in the region. The increasing global warming and opening up of the Arctic have brought multiple geopolitical issues before the Arctic and non-Arctic states. 1 In pursuit of their perceived geopolitical, geo-economics and strategic interests, a race to ‘securitise the Arctic’ has started amongst the major Arctic states. This process of securitisation appears to be dictated and driven not only by traditional military-strategic considerations but also by non-traditional security threat dilemmas related to energy, environment, sustainability, human security, connectivity, etc. As the old and the new Arctic challenges are being taken out of the realm of ‘normal politics’ and placed in the contested domain of ‘security politics’, the Asian states, that are directly or indirectly impacted by the changing Arctic, realise that securitisation of the Arctic is leaving little space for addressing common issues of global concern. This study argues that all these emerging issues (otherwise perceived as ‘security threats’) in the Arctic, instead of being addressed in the securitisation framework, could and should be approached and addressed as compelling reasons for mutual cooperation and thus in need of de-securitisation.

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The New Geopolitics of the Arctic: Russia's and China's Evolving Role in the Region

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Northeast Asia in regional perspective

Northeast Asia in regional perspective

The Evolving Arctic in the World-System

‘De-Securitising the Arctic’ in Climate Change: An Indian Perspective

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