"The post-Cold War Arctic has seen a transformation from military tension and a focus on national security to a concern for environmental and human security. As a result of this, the globalized Arctic has a high level of peace and stability, maintained by international cooperation between the Arctic states, northern indigenous peoples, sub-national governments and local actors. There has also been a shift from environmental protection to economic activities and, consequently, states easily trump other interests. Now, in the Arctic, these challenges require fresh thinking on a local and global scale. Regional wars, the 'war on terror', and economic crises have posed new threats to Northern security order. "-- Provided by publisher.

1. High Arctic Stability as an Asset for Storms of International Politics : An Introduction / Lassi Heininen -- 2. Security of the Global Arctic in Transformation : Potential for changes in problem definition / Lassi Heininen -- 3. Military Cooperation and Enhanced Arctic Security in the Context of Climate Change and Growing Global Interest in the Arctic / Michal Luszczuk -- 4. Russian Sub-national Actors : Paradiplomacies in the European and Russian Arctic / Pertti Joenniemi and Alexander Sergunin -- 5. The US Arctic Policy Agenda : The State Trumps Other Interests / Steve L. Lamy -- 6. Ripple Effects : Devolution, Development and State Sovereignty in the Canadian North / Heather N. Nicol -- 7. The Arctic, Laboratory of the Anthropocene / Matthias Finger.