Russia’s Far North: The Contested Energy Frontier
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Edited by Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Shinichiro Tabata, Daria Gritsenko, Masanori Goto |
CONTENTS
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Foreword: A multidisciplinary effort to understand Russia’s Arctic policy and politics Daria Gritsenko, Masanori Goto, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, and Shinichiro Tabata |
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| Introduction: Contested Russian Arctic |
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen |
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| Part I: Energy and economy | 9 | |
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1. Economic Development of the Arctic Regions of Russia |
Shinichiro Tabata, Tomoko Tabata |
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2. Perspectives of Oil and Gas Development in the Russian Arctic |
Masumi Motomura |
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| 3. Northern Sea Route (NSR) shipping, current status, and feasibility |
Natsuhiko Otsuka, Toru Tamura, Masahiko Furuichi |
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| Part II: Diplomacy and security | 65 | |
| 4. Planning sustainable Arctic: Regional development in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russia) |
Daria Gritsenko, Elena Efimova |
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| 5. The twofold development of the Arctic: where do the Arctic states stand? |
Lassi Heininen |
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| 6. Potential transboundary maritime energy disputes in the Arctic: the Russian perspective | Valery Konyshev, Alexander Sergunin |
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| 7. Examining the execution of Russian military-security policies and programs in the Arctic | Pavel K. Baev |
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| Part III: Business and environment | 127 | |
| 8. Russian Arctic development and environmental discourse | Masahiro Tokunaga |
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| 9. Are Finnish firms willing to explore the Russian maritime and offshore industry? Perceptions of Finnish SMEs of the Russian market and export collaboration |
Hanna Mäkinen, Eini Haaja |
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| 10. Cutting through channels: Local entrepreneurship of indigenous actors in Arctic Russia |
Masanori Goto |
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| 11. Disappearing white fish and remaining black fish in the lower Ob’ river and its tributaries: Conflict on the use of fish resources between indigenous people and non-locals |
Yuka Oishi |
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| Part IV: Identity and community | 189 | |
| 12. Telling domestic and international policy stories: The case of Russian Arctic policy |
Daria Gritsenko, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen |
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| 13. Simulating sovereignty: The role of the Arctic in constructing Russian post-imperial identity |
Sergei Medvedev |
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| 14. The Arctic in Russia's fin-de-siècle imagination: The paintings and writings of Aleksandr Borisov | Otto Boele |
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| 15. The image of the Russian North in I. Bilibin’s creative work |
Dmitry Baranov |
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| Notes on contributors |
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| Index |
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