CIAO DATE: 01/2011
December 2010
Finnish Institute for International Affairs
The maritime border delimitation deal between Russia and Norway sensationally announced by President Dmitri Medvedev in Oslo on 27 April 2010 and signed in Murmansk on 15 September 2010 warrants a re-appraisal of Russia’s Arctic policy. The penchant for sensationalism often spills over from the media into policy analysis, which recycles perceptions of the ‘struggle for resources’ reaching the intensity of a ‘great Arctic game’ and escalating into a ‘new Cold War’.
Resource link: Russia's Arctic policy: Geopolitics, mercantilism and identity-building [PDF] - 2.4M