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The Svalbard Archipelago in Russian Security Policy: Overcoming the Legacy of Fear – or Reproducing It?
- DOI:
- 10.1080/09662830802642470
pages 227-251
- Published online: 09 Jan 2009
Abstract
Drawing on the constructivist concept of ‘securitisation’, this article analyses Russia's perceptions of, and responses to, Norway's Svalbard policy in the 1990s and 2000s. The analysis focuses on three policy issues which have figured prominently on Russia's arctic security agenda in recent years: (1) the establishment and use of civilian radars and satellite ground stations on the archipelago, (2) the adoption of the Svalbard Environmental Protection Act, and (3) the Norwegian Coast Guard's fishery enforcement measures in the Svalbard Fisheries Protection Zone. The article concludes that despite the changes that have taken place in the Euro-Arctic region after the Cold War, Svalbard has not ceased to be a security concern for Russia.
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- Published online: 09 Jan 2009
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