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The North American Arctic focuses on current and emerging security issues confronting the Arctic that are shaping relationships between Alaska; the Canadian territories of Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories; Greenland; and Russia. Raising important and timely questions about normative security arrangements, contributors identify the degree to which “domain awareness” has redefined traditional military focuses, while new human rights discourses have undercut traditional ways of managing sovereignty and territory. While security itself is not an outdated concept, our understanding of what constitutes human-centered security has shifted dramatically. Contributors explore this shift, looking at new regionally specific threats through the subjectivities and spaces under discussion. Providing a much-needed framework, The North American Arctic helps readers understand the impact of new developments in security in this region at both the level of community and the broader scale.

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Author:   Dwayne Ryan Menezes ,  Heather N. Nicol
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9781787356627

ISBN 10:   1787356620
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   04 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Dwayne Ryan Menezes and Heather Nicol 2. North by Far Northwest: Indigenising Regional Policy Innovation in Border Management Christian Leuprecht and Todd Hataley 3. The History of the Jay Treaty, and its Significance to Cross-Border Mobility and Security for Indigenous Peoples in the North American Northern Borderlands and Beyond Greg Boos, Heather Fathali and Greg McLawsen 4. A Land Without Borders – Inuit Cultural Integrity Dalee Sambo Dorough 5. Key Issues to Arctic Security Randy ‘Church’ Kee, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.) 6. The North American Arctic Maritime and Environmental Security Workshop 2018: Summary Workshop Report Randy ’Church’ Kee, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret.); Paula Williams and Heather Nicol 7. Regional Border Security Management in the Territorial North Heather N. Nicol, Adam Lajeunesse, Whitney Lackenbauer and Karen Everett 8. Bridging the Gap: Fostering Military-Civilian Collaboration to Improve Marine, Aviation and Telecommunications Infrastructure in the US Arctic Mead Treadwell and Taylor Drew Holshouser 9. Canada’s Northern Borders in the Context of National Border Regimes Karen Everett 10. An Evaluation of the Security Relationship between Canada and Greenland Andrew Chater 11. Arctic Security for a Big Small Country Tony Penikett 12. Minimising Vulnerability in Canada’s Arctic Borderlands through Cross-scale Linkages: the Beaufort Sea Partnership Justin Barnes 13. Reconciling the North: Transit Pipelines and the Pursuit of Self-Sufficient Self-Government in the Yukon Nicholas Wilson 14. ‘That happens up here?’ Human Trafficking and Security in the North American Arctic Mike Perry 15. Informal Disaster Governance in the Arctic Patrizia Isabelle Duda 16. Historical Ecology for Risk Management Anuszka Mosurska and Anne Garland

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Dwayne Ryan Menezes is Founder and Managing Director of Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) and Honorary Fellow at the UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction. He is also Founder and Director at the Human Security Centre and the Commonwealth Policy Development Centre; Chairman of the Advisory Board at Think-Film Impact Production; and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He read history at the LSE and the University of Cambridge, graduating from the latter with a PhD, and has been affiliated since with research centres at Cambridge, Oxford and London. Heather N. Nicol is Professor in the School of the Environment and Acting Director of the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University (Canada). She is a member of the Academic Leadership Team at the University of the Arctic (UArctic), the Lead of the UArctic Circumpolar Studies Program, and a member of the UArctic Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security and the EU- and Canada-funded Borders in Globalization international research network. She also sits on the International Advisory Board of Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) and serves as its Canada Lead.

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