№96: Rising Challenges for the Arctic Council: Between a Great Power Competition and Multilateralism?
№96: Rising Challenges for the Arctic Council: Between a Great Power Competition and Multilateralism?

Author(s): Paweł Markiewicz
Contributor(s): Sławomir Dębski (Editor), Patrycja Sasnal (Editor), Wojciech Lorenz (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics, Regional Geography, International relations/trade, Security and defense
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Arctic Council; USA; China; Russia; competition; multilateralism;
Summary/Abstract: Throughout its 25 years of existence, the Arctic Council has contributed heavily to preserving the Arctic as a zone of peace. Nowadays, changes in political realities present more complex challenges. The Council wants to continue tackling environmental problems while deescalating the growing power and military competition between China, Russia, and the United States, which may spread to the Arctic. However, balancing the Council’s mandated role of regional cooperation with security management risks losing the clear focus on the pressing climate emergency and overlooking the military nexus. If this happens, the tense relations in the region may further escalate.

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