Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributor Biographies
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction: Circumpolar Perspectives
- Part II European Security Interests in the Arctic
- 4 Arctic Security and Norway
- 5 Norway and the Arctic
- 6 Military Aspects of Russia's Arctic Policy
- 7 The Russian Arctic in the Twenty-First Century
- 8 The Rise of the Arctic on the Global Stage
- 9 The Arctic Challenge to Danish Foreign and Security Policy
- 10 Arctic Security
- 11 Territorial Discourses and Identity Politics
- Part III North American Security Interests in the Arctic
- Afterword
- Index
- References
9 - The Arctic Challenge to Danish Foreign and Security Policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributor Biographies
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction: Circumpolar Perspectives
- Part II European Security Interests in the Arctic
- 4 Arctic Security and Norway
- 5 Norway and the Arctic
- 6 Military Aspects of Russia's Arctic Policy
- 7 The Russian Arctic in the Twenty-First Century
- 8 The Rise of the Arctic on the Global Stage
- 9 The Arctic Challenge to Danish Foreign and Security Policy
- 10 Arctic Security
- 11 Territorial Discourses and Identity Politics
- Part III North American Security Interests in the Arctic
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
Denmark's awakening awareness of the Arctic
In May 2008, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller gathered colleagues from the four other states bordering the Arctic Ocean for a successful conference in Ilulissat, Greenland, on the future governance of the region. In the so-called Ilulissat Declaration adopted at the conference, the Arctic Five stated the following:
The Arctic stands at the threshold of significant changes. Climate change and the melting of ice have a potential impact on vulnerable ecosystems, the livelihoods of local populations and indigenous communities, and the potential exploitation of natural resources. By virtue of their sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction in large areas of the Arctic Ocean, the five coastal states are in a unique position to address these possibilities and challenges. In this regard we recall that an extensive legal framework applies to the Arctic Ocean.…Notably, the law of the sea provides for important rights and obligations.…This framework provides a solid foundation for responsible management by the five coastal states and other users of this Ocean through national implementation and application of relevant provisions. We therefore see no need to develop a new comprehensive international legal scheme to govern the Arctic Ocean.
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- Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change , pp. 145 - 165Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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