Russia’s Ambivalent Status-Quo/Revisionist Policies in the Arctic

Baev, Pavel

doi:10.23865/arctic.v9.1336

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“…Moreover, the stated objectives of these conferences are in line with Russia's foreign policy objectives in the Arctic. 44 Despite the inclusion of international cooperation, there is a noteworthy expression of strategical positioning in these conference objectives. President Putin has repeatedly indicated that he wants Russia to become internationally recognized as a global power, and that an active Arctic presence can help achieve this.…”

Section: Conferences Established 2010-2013mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere

Steinveg

2021

Arctic Review

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The Arctic region has attracted the interest of Arctic and non-Arctic states, as well as non-state actors, for decades. Corresponding with the growing attraction towards the region, the number of conferences attending to Arctic issues has expanded. This article provides an historical mapping of the Arctic conference sphere, and demonstrates how the establishment of Arctic conferences has both paralleled central events in Arctic affairs and can be linked to important international developments. Firstly, there is a notable peak conforming with the “second state change” in 2005, brought about by developments opening the Arctic to global concerns: the impacts of climate change and the spread of the socio-economic effects from globalization to the Arctic. Secondly, the expanding number of conferences around 2013 can be seen in relation to the growing interest in the region from non-Arctic states. As such, this article builds the argument for conferences as a central element within the Arctic governance architecture, creating linkages among units in the regime complex. The article devotes particular attention towards the two largest international conferences on Arctic issues – Arctic Frontiers and Arctic Circle Assembly – to illustrate how the necessity for hybrid policy-science-business conferences arose from a more complex governance system, and challenges requiring cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and international collaboration.

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Section: Conferences Established 2010-2013mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere

Steinveg

2021

Arctic Review

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“…On occasions, the two countries fought wars – most notably, one that resulted in Sweden losing Finland to the Russian Empire in 1809. During the Cold War, the Nordics were strategically peripheral (Hyde-Price, 2018: 440); yet, in Baev’s (2018: 410) analysis, they have now become strategically important, due to the location of Russia’s main base for strategic submarines in the Kola Peninsula. This makes the High North central to both the US and Russia, as a key location for placement of early warning and missile defence systems.…”

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Ringing true? The persuasiveness of Russian strategic narratives

Wagnsson

Lundström

2022

Media, War & Conflict

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International Relations (IR) scholars have theorized the significance of communication and messaging across state borders, using notions such as soft power, sharp power, propaganda and illiberal communication. This study contributes to this body of research by investigating narrative persuasiveness by way of a large-scale experimental exploration of narrative reception. The projection of strategic narratives has become a central feature of modern influencing across borders. Despite the existence of a growing literature on the potentially harmful effects of such narratives, however, their persuasiveness remains under-researched. This article seeks to help fill this gap by asking what might induce people in Sweden to side with strategic narratives projected by Sputnik, the Russian state-funded news media platform. The article puts a central component of Walter Fisher’s classic narrative paradigm to the test: the notions of narrative probability (consistency and coherence) and fidelity (previous life experience). In a rare large-scale survey experiment ( N = 2,032), three narratives from Sputnik were presented to respondents to establish the potential perceived narrative probability and fidelity. Contrary to Fisher’s argument and some previous works on strategic narratives, the results show that people can be persuaded by a narrative without having personal experience of the topic, and despite regarding the text as incoherent. This indicates that information influence projected through strategic narratives can be effective regardless of the form of the message and even when introducing unfamiliar ideas. This is an interesting addition to findings in previous studies that source awareness does not negatively affect the effectiveness of strategic narratives. The article ends by highlighting contributions to previous research on persuasion and by suggesting avenues ahead.

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“…Such a "topical and paradigmatic DNA analysis" will show what ideas inform Russian expert and official "talk" on the Arctic; the actual "walk"-real-life policies in the Arctic-is covered by another article in this thematic cluster. 12 In section 2, we explore how geopolitical traditions discernible in today's Russia inform expert narratives on the "retrieved" Arctic. In section 3, we turn to official geopolitical approaches, examining how questions concerning the Arctic have been dealt with in Russian official statements on foreign and security policy.…”

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Russian Expert and Official Geopolitical Narratives on the Arctic: Decoding Topical and Paradigmatic DNA

Godzimirski

Sergunin

2020

Arctic Review

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This article examines current Russian expert and official narratives on the Arctic, situating them in the broader context of the debate on Russia’s role in the international system. Combining a critical geopolitics approach to the study of international relations with content analysis tools, we map how structural geopolitical changes in the wider region have shaped narratives on the Arctic in Russia today. Two types of Russian narratives on the Arctic are explored—the one put forward by members of the Russian expert community, and the one that emerges from official documents and statements by members of the Russian policymaking community. With the expert narratives, we pay particular attention to the Arctic topics featured and how they are informed by various mainstream approaches to the study of international relations (IR). In examining policy practitioners’ narrative approaches, we trace the overlaps and differences between these and the expert narratives. Current expert and official Russian narratives on the Arctic appear to be influenced mostly by neorealist and neoliberal ideas in IR, without substantial modifications after the 2014 conflict, thus showing relatively high ideational continuity.

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Russia’s Ambivalent Status-Quo/Revisionist Policies in the Arctic

Cited by 12 publications

References 1 publication

Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere

Exponential Growth and New Agendas – a Comprehensive Review of the Arctic Conference Sphere

Ringing true? The persuasiveness of Russian strategic narratives

Russian Expert and Official Geopolitical Narratives on the Arctic: Decoding Topical and Paradigmatic DNA

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