Leadership for the North: The Influence and Impact of Arctic Council Chairs

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Providing Leadership for the North  (Douglas C. Nord)....Pages 3-10
Front Matter ....Pages 11-11
 Policy Paradoxes: Challenges Confronting the Contemporary Arctic  (Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Douglas Cost)....Pages 13-32
 The Arctic Council in Transition  (Malgorzata (Gosia) Smieszek)....Pages 33-51
 Chairs and International Organizations: The Case of the Arctic Council  (Douglas C. Nord)....Pages 53-68
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 The Swedish Chairmanship: Foresight and Hindsight in Arctic Activism  (Niklas Eklund)....Pages 71-88
 Development or Bust: Canada’s Arctic Council Chairmanship 2013–15  (Heather Exner-Pirot)....Pages 89-105
 The U.S. Chairmanship: Round Two  (Heather Nicol)....Pages 107-126
 Finland’s Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Setting Priorities and Implementing Them  (Timo Koivurova)....Pages 127-146
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 Change and Continuity Among the Priorities of the Arctic Council’s Permanent Participants  (Andrew Chater)....Pages 149-166
 Non-Arctic State Observers of the Arctic Council: Perspectives and Views  (Diddy R. M. Hitchins)....Pages 167-183
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 Findings and Conclusions  (Douglas C. Nord)....Pages 187-201