2. Royal Danish Defence College
The Arctic: Common Good or National interests?
Johannes Nordby
Royal Danish Defence College

3. The Scramble for the Arctic

4. Institutionalizing the Arctic
Economic
Transportation
Tourism
Science
But what about:
Military security
Political Security

5. UNCLOS Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

6. Arctic Council Main political purpose:
International recognition of the Arctic as belonging to the Arctic states.
Exclusion of Non-Arctic states
The observer status of Non-arctic states.

7. Arctic Council
Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution, Preparedness and Response in the Arctic
Canada-Denmark, Agreement for Co-operation Relating to the Marine Environment

8. Arctic Security Forces Roundtable

9. A Danish take on Arctic security
The Kingdom is the weakness Arctic power
A shift from idealism to realism?
Danish security policy is becoming less snow blind
White paper on military presence due December 2014.

10. Concluding remarks on institutionalizing the Arctic
More multilateral agreements within ”soft” security
But a lack of institutionalizing political and military security.
Spill over from the conflict in Ukraine.
Arctic Council as a political institution and political networking.
Exclusion of other institutions and states
Mainly bilateral agreement on UNCLOS issues