Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic

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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