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Climate Change and Arctic Security

Searching for a Paradigm Shift

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Lassi Heininen

    1. INAR at University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Heather Exner-Pirot

    1. Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique at CIRRICQ, Quebec, Canada

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  • Argues for changes in security premises of the Arctic states
  • Discusses the construction of security against climate change
  • Explores the possibility of a paradigm shift in traditional security

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Theorizing and Broadening Arctic Security—Towards the Environment and Climate

    • Lassi Heininen, Heather Exner-Pirot
    Pages 1-8

  3. Age of Changes: Threat of Climate Change and Its Meaning for Security

    • Salla Kalliojärvi
    Pages 9-32

  4. China, Great Power Responsibility and Arctic Security

    • Sanna Kopra
    Pages 33-52

  5. Climate Change Ethics in the Arctic

    • Teemu Palosaari
    Pages 53-60

  6. Cities and Human Security in a Warming Arctic

    • Wilfrid Greaves
    Pages 61-89

  7. Between Militarization and Disarmament: Challenges for Arctic Security in the Twenty-First Century

    • Heather Exner-Pirot
    Pages 91-106

  8. Before Climate Change, ‘Nuclear Safety’ Was There—A Retrospective Study and Lessons Learned of Changing Security Premises in the Arctic

    • Lassi Heininen
    Pages 107-129

  9. Conclusion: The Search for a New Security Paradigm Begins in the Arctic

    • Heather Exner-Pirot, Lassi Heininen
    Pages 131-133

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 135-137
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About this book

This book assesses the construction of security in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Arctic region. It examines and discusses changes in the security premises of the Arctic states, from traditional security to environmental and human security. In particular, the book explores how climate change impacts security discourses and premises as well as theoretically discussing the possibility for another change, from circumpolar stability into peaceful change. Chapters cover topics such as the ethics of climate change in the arctic, China’s emerging power and influence on arctic climate security, the discursive transformation of the definition of security and the intersection between urban, climate and Arctic studies. The book concludes with the question of whether a paradigm shift in our understanding of traditional security is possible, and whether it is already occurring in the Arctic. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • INAR at University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Lassi Heininen

  • Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique at CIRRICQ, Quebec, Canada

    Heather Exner-Pirot

About the editors

Lassi Heininen is the Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, Research Director at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Professor of International Relations at Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia, and Professor of Arctic Politics at the University of Lapland (retired). He is the author of over 300 scientific publications including The Global Arctic Handbook (2018), Future Security of the Global Arctic: State Policy, Economic Security and Climate (2016), and Security and Sovereignty in the North Atlantic (2014).


Heather Exner-Pirot is Research Associate at the Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l'Arctique (OPSA), Canada and the Managing Editor of the Arctic Yearbook. She has held several positions at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, the International Centre for Northern Governance and Development, Canada and the University of the Arctic. She has published extensively on Arctic and northern governance, human security, and Indigenous economic development. 



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