Event

Is Russia’s Arctic policy developing in a more confrontational direction? Or will it remain conducive to constructive cooperation with other states in the region, thus preserving the Arctic as a distinct policy field characterized by more cooperative and less confrontational approach? These are among the questions NUPI’s new NORRUSS-funded project “Can cooperative Russian and Western Arctic policies survive the current crisis in Russian-Western relations?” will seek to address. The seminar serves as a launch of the new project and a stock-taking of the current status in Russian Arctic policy.

Programme:

11:00–11:15    Can cooperative Russian and Western Arctic policies survive the current crisis in Russian-Western relations? Presentation of the CANARCT project, Research Professor Jakub M. Godzimirski,NUPI

11:15–11:35    Domestic sources of Russian Arctic policy, Professor Alexander Sergunin, St Petersburg State University

11:35–11:55    The Arctic in Russia’s strategic designs – long-lines in Russian Arctic policy, Professor Pavel Baev, Peace Research Institute in Oslo

11:55–12:30    Q&A session

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