... duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”
Guy de Maupassant
In our highly unstable world there are but a few places which can be deemed close to being tranquil. In the preceding post Casing Point outlined that the Arctic is amongst such areas. Still, it is not utterly free from certain caveats. In particularly, the allure of Arctic’s natural wealth may become too temping – even though acquiring it cannot be achieved by a lone state in the foreseeable ...
Interview with Alexander Shestakov (WWF)
Interview
Economic development in the Arctic has recently been in the global spotlight. We discussed plans for exploiting natural resources in the Arctic, and the potential impact that economic activities may have on the region’s environment, with Alexander Shestakov, Director of the ...
In the midst of the 20th century the Arctic resembled a geopolitical playground where two superpowers tested each other’s nerves with their burgeoning nuclear arsenals, as submarines plied deep beneath icy waters. What changed? In the 21st century bipolarity has ended and memories ...
In 2013, the expert community has noticeably shifted its focus on the perspectives for the Arctic development, with two major conferences in Russia within one week, i.e. RIAC’s “
The Arctic: Region of Cooperation and Development
” in Moscow and “The Arctic: Now and Then” in St. Petersburg.
The latter was held on ...
On December 2-3, 2013 Moscow became the venue of international conference “The Arctic: Region of Cooperation and Development” organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and its Russian and international partners, among them RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), International ...
The Arctic and related issues became an extremely hot topic at the turn of the 21stcentury. The reasons for this new focus on the region are chiefly economic: soaring global energy prices made many parties turn their attentions to the Arctic, where experts ...
In late November, 2013 RIAC published its anthology “The Arctic Region: Problems of International Cooperation” prepared within the framework of its project “Roadmap for International Cooperation in the Arctic” aimed at assisting the implementation of Russia’s strategy for development ...
Latest reports published by various think tanks emphasize that China starts to pay more attention to the Arctic and that the climate change has impelled the Chinese Government to allocate more resources to research in the High Arctic.[1] The Foreign Ministry of Norway notes that the Arctic may become another region where China will adamantly pursue its strategic ...
... with the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) RAS and in partnership with the
Pew Charitable Trusts
and the
Center for Strategic and International Studies
will hold in Moscow an International Conference on “
The Arctic: Region of Development and Cooperation
”. The event is endorsed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The Conference is held in line with RIAC long-term project
Roadmap for International Cooperation in the Arctic
...
2013 Report
2013 Report #12
The report continues work held in line with the “Roadmap for International Cooperation in the Arctic” project organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). The report covers the results of international cooperation in the Arctic region in 2013.
The authors focused on four basic areas of cooperation: strengthening of the Arctic ...
