2023/2024
International relations in the Arctic region
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
When:
3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Паникар Марина Михайловна
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is devoted to the study of the Arctic as a regional subsystem of international relations. The analysis of the Arctic geopolitics, the characteristics of the foreign policy of the Arctic states, including the interests of Russia, as well as the functioning of international organizations in the region are in focus. In the practical part of the course students will get acquainted with the Arctic strategies of the Arctic states, as well as non-regional actors.
Learning Objectives
- to study the Arctic as a system of international relations and geopolitical region
Expected Learning Outcomes
- • to study the geopolitical space of the Arctic
- • to be able to analyze the strategic documents and policy of the Arctic actors with the aim of prediction of the international regional development
- A student knows the key regional and non-regional actors in the Arctic region and their policy towards the region
- A student knows the key formats of the international cooperation in the Arctic region
- • to know the key regional and non-regional actors in the Arctic region and their policy towards the region
Course Contents
- Defining the Arctic region
- Global Drivers of Change in the Arctic region
- Regional building cooperation in the Arctic
- Russia in the Arctic
- Intergovernmental organizations in the Arctic
- Model Arctic Council (MAC)
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 3rd module0.5 * Class participation + 0.2 * The essay + 0.3 * • Final test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Arctic Geopolitics, Media and Power. (2019). Netherlands, Europe: Taylor & Francis. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BD2F7482
- Kraska, J. (2011). Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=375954
- Larusson, E. (2014). Commercial or political interests [Elektronische Ressource] : oil and gas in the Russian Arctic / Erik Larusson. Stockholm: Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.427247322
- O. R. Young. (2019). Constructing the “New” Arctic: The Future of the Circumpolar North in a Changing Global Order. https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2019-12-5-6-24
- Stronski, P. V. (DE-588)1139397028, (DE-576)350614059, aut. (2018). Cooperation and competition : Russia and China in Central Asia, the Russian Far East, and the Arctic / Paul Stronski and Nicole Ng ; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Oran R. Young. (2019). Is It Time for a Reset in Arctic Governance? https://doi.org/10.3390/su11164497