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Current Issues and Problems of Arctic Ocean Governance

Current Issues and Problems of Arctic Ocean Governance

Current Issues and Problems of Arctic Ocean Governance

Current Issues and Problems of 
Arctic Ocean Governance
December 28, 2012 
YOO Joon-koo
Visiting Professor
With the rapidly shrinking 
Arctic ice and expanding 
interests in northern sea 
route and resource 
exploitation, the issues of 
sovereignty loom ever larger over the 
northern landscape. The Arctic Ocean, 
which exists in a precarious balance 
between ice and water, is more 
susceptible to climate change than 
anywhere else on Earth. At the current 
rate, the entire Arctic Ocean could be icefree
in late summer within five years. 
These changes have sparked justifiable 
excitement about the economic 
opportunities that will result from easier 
access, while giving rise to unfounded 
concerns about military conflict. Indeed, 
the most significant under-reported 
aspect of the Arctic is an increase in 
international co-operation. 
The Arctic Council, as a leading 
international organization for Arctic 
ocean governance, has an opportunity to
devise cutting-edge co-operative 
arrangements well-suited to the 
increasingly complex transnational 
landscape of the 21st century. But it 
cannot capitalize on this opportunity 
unless those steeped in traditional 
diplomatic practices exhibit the selfconfidence
required to experiment with 
innovative procedures designed to open 
up the council and to legitimize its claim 
to function as the voice of the Arctic.
Seen from this perspective, the melting 
Arctic ice will not lead to military conflict. 
Rather, it is creating a new Mediterranean 
or a “middle sea” across which the 
world’s powers will trade. And the next 
decade promises to be a period of both 
continued growth and consolidation with 
regard to the international relations of 
the Circumpolar North. IFANS 2012 ©

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Arctic Ocean Governance

Circumpolar North

Current Issues and Problems of 
Arctic Ocean Governance

international organization for Arctic

ocean governance

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