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Asian Players in the Arctic: Interests, Opportunities, Prospects

Report #26 / 2016 The Arctic’s growing geopolitical and geoeconomic significance against the background of global climate change determines the interest of non-Arctic players to the region. In 2013 India, China, Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore became observers to the Arctic Council. The Report examines non-regional actors’ interests in the Arctic, their policy frameworks in the region and principal areas of Arctic studies. Authors also explore the Asian states’ positions on the international status of the Arctic....

12.10.2016

Towards The Arctic Ocean through the Kuril Islands

... is Japan doing in the Arctic Ocean? Is it possible to leverage potential cooperation in that region to resolve the territorial dispute? Japan’s Initial Steps in the Arctic Ocean Of all the foreign states that have displayed some interest in the Arctic Ocean, Japan has been one of the first to demonstrate its ambitions to develop the region. It was in 1987, immediately after Gorbachev’s speech in Murmansk when the President of the USSR proposed turning the Arctic Ocean into a zone of peace and cooperation....

15.04.2013

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U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)