Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
An Ocean in the Making: Non-Arctic Actors and the Emerging Arctic Legal Orders
AKIHO SHIBATA, LEILEI ZOU, NIKOLAS SELLHEIM & MARZIA SCOPELLITI
Part I - Setting the Contexts
The Current and Future Role of Non-Arctic States in Arctic Governance
TIMO KOIVUROVA
The Rise of Asia and Arctic Legal Order-making: Political-Economic Settings
AKI TONAMI
Japan's Role in Formation and Strengthening of Arctic Legal Orders
KEIJI IDE
China's Arctic Policy White Paper and Its Influence on the Future of Arctic Legal Developments
EGILL THOR NIELSSON & BJARNI MAR MAGNUSSON
Part II - People(s) in the Arctic
Our Homeland: Arctic Indigenous Peoples' Perspective of Non-Arctic States
DALEE SAMBO DOROUGH
Sustaining a Conservationist Agenda? NGO-Influence on Arctic Sealing, Whaling and Hydrocarbon Regimes
MARZIA SCOPELLITI & NIKOLAS SELLHEIM
Part III - Arctic Marine Legal Order-making
The Five-plus-five Process on Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Negotiations: Reflecting Interests of Arctic and Non-Arctic Actors
JOJI MORISHITA
Participation in the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement
ERIK MOLENAAR
10. The Role of Transnational Knowledge Networks and Epistemic Communities in Arctic Shipping Governance
RASMUS GJEDSSO BERTELSEN
11. Russia's Legislative Development Pertaining to the Northern Sea Route and Its Interaction with Russian-Sino Arctic Cooperation
LEILEI ZOU
Part IV - The Universality of Science and the Arctic Council
12. The Arctic Science Cooperation Agreement: A Perspective from Non-Arctic Actors
AKIHO SHIBATA
State Observers and Science Cooperation in the Arctic Council: Same Same But Different?
SEBASTIAN KNECHT & JENNIFER SPENCE
14. China in the Arctic Council: Existing Problems and Prospective Solutions
YUANYUAN REN
Appendix
Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, signed by the eight Arctic states on 11 May 2017, entered into force on 23 May 2018
Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean, signed by Canada, the People's Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect for the Faroe Islands and Greenland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, the United States of America and the European Union on 3 October 2018
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