Logbook Arctic
Space, Interests, and Law

Osteuropa 2-3/2011
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel, Christoph Humrich (Ed.)
Berlin (BWV) 2011 [= Osteuropa 2-3/2011]
448 pages, 24 maps, 80 figures
Price: 32,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1845-7

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Philipp Felsch
  The Arctic Subjunctive
  In Search of an Ice-Free Polar Sea

• Nature and Law

• Jörg Stadelbauer
  The Arctic as Natural Region
  Russia’s Far North
• Rüdiger Gerdes
  Climate Change in the Arctic
  Phenomena and Prognoses
• Uwe Jenisch
  The Arctic and Maritime Law
  Sea Boundaries, Continental Shelf Claims, and Traffic Law
• Elvira Pushkareva
  The Arctic in International Law
  The Convention on the Law of the Sea and Sector Theory
• Karl Hinz
  Who Owns the Central Arctic?
  Geology, Bathymetry, and Maritime Law
• Karl Hinz
  "There Is No Competition Over the Arctic"
  Karl Hinz on the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the Raw Materials Myth, and Precedence
• Thijs Duyzings
  The Northern Sea Route
  Russia’s Rules of Navigation and International Law

• Economy and Environment

• Hilmar Rempel
  The Arctic’s Raw Materials
  Potential and Deposits
• Indra Øverland
  Cooperation instead of Confrontation
  Shtokman, Jamal, and Russia’s Energy Policy
• Stephen Fortescue
  Ores and Oligarchs
  The Mining Industry in Russia’s Northwest
• Bettina Rudloff
  Fish in Water ?
  The EU and Arctic Fishing
• Karl Magnus Eger, Arnfinn Jørgensen-Dahl
  Short Way, High Risk
  The Northern Sea Route: A Euro-Asian Shipping Lane?
• Elena Nikitina
  Russia’s Filthy Arctic
  Environmental Pollution and the First Signs of Ecological Thinking
• Sandra Cavalieri, et al.
  In Search of Clues
  The European Union’s Ecological Footprint in the Arctic

• Conflict and Cooperation

• Christoph Humrich, Klaus Dieter Wolf
  War in the Arctic?
  Conflict Scenarios under Scrutiny
• Kristian Åtland
  All Quiet on the Northern Front?
  The Arctic in Russia’s Security Policy
• Geir Hønneland
  Compromise as Routine
  Russian-Norwegian Conflict Resolution in the Barents Sea
• Klaus Gestwa
  Polarisation of Soviet History
  The Antarctic in the Cold War
• Michael Hamel-Green
  Nuclear-Free Zone Arctic
  Models and Prospects
• Kirsti Stuvøy, Brigt Dale
  The Arctic Council
  Health between Science and Politics

• Community and Society

• Vasilij Golovanov
  Earth without Gods
• Ulrich Schmid
  Eurasians or Scandoslavs?
  The North in Russia’s Cultural Self-Understanding
• Florian Stammler, Elena Khlinovskaya
  Round-Trip ticket, “Earth” and Back
  Population Movement in Russia’s Far North
• Timothy Heleniak, Tobias Holzlehner, Elena Khlinovskaya
  The Great Exodus
  Demographic Trends on Russia’s Northern Periphery
• Johannes Rohr
  Conformity and Self-Assertion
  The Indigenous Peoples of Russia’s Far North
• Anna Stammler-Gossmann
  Indigenous Peoples
  The Historical Roots of Russian Minority Policy

• Books and Journals

• Christoph Humrich
  The Future of the Arctic
  A Report on the Literature

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This volume is the best comprehensive volume on the Arctic in German and one of the best volumes dealing with the Arctic in general.
Nikolas Sellheim, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland, Polar Record, 4/2011