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dc.contributor.authorHaugseth, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-01T08:01:06Z
dc.date.available2019-04-01T08:01:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractAs the world was becoming more interdependent, with increased global awareness of the north-ernmost parts of the world, both the Norwegian and Russian governments showed more political commit-ment to and interest in new forms of region-building and development in the High North from 2006 and onwards. Today, more than ten years later, many regional changes are evident in the Norwegian-Russian border zone, as a consequence of expanded people-to-people contacts in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region (BEAR). In this peripheral border area between two national states, villages and cities have become more open, both sociologically and legally for increased cross border cooperation (CBC) and networking. In this article I will take stock of some of these borderland openings following on from the consequence of the two nations’ rising levels of interest in the High North. It explores the ways in which (inter-)national policy-making and state-substate interactions ultimately altered centre-periphery dynamics. This article has based its approach to understanding the interplay of domestic and foreign policy instruments on the ‘substate diplomacy’ literature, which argues that increased state-substate interactions constitute an efficient in-strument for extending cooperation beyond national state borders. The efficiency of regionally driven sub-state interactions is discussed from an empirical perspective. The present study analyses various High North development contexts and discourses (effective from 2008) in the Arctic borderland between Norway and Russia. The new political commitments presented in state-level official documents (the branding of the High North) envisioned a transference of new industrial-economic high tech scenarios from state to local level. These scenarios included new borderland visa regimes, co-existing with cross-border forums invest-ments in improvements of roads, infrastructure, and transport rationalisations. The present article briefly assesses these policy rationales and their outcomes, revealing the region’s contemporary geopolitical and economical potential, as well as local and regional realities. The findings show that substate governments and stakeholders are able to operate in demanding trans-border contexts, contribute to ongoing contem-porary CBC discussions, and complement national and state-level efforts by using their regional expertise to solve problems.en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137> https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHaugseth, P. (2018). High North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zone. <i>Арктика и Север, 33</i> - [<i>Arctic and North</i>], 116-132. https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1682152
dc.identifier.doi10.17238/issn2221-2698.2018.33.137
dc.identifier.issn2221-2698
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/15110
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherNorthern Arctic Federal Universityen_US
dc.relation.journalАрктика и Север
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Historie: 070en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240en_US
dc.subjectHigh North politicsen_US
dc.subjectBarents Euro-Arctic Regionen_US
dc.subjectNorwegian-Russian bilateral relationsen_US
dc.subjectstatesubstate diplomacyen_US
dc.subjectcross-border cooperationen_US
dc.subjectlocal border trafficen_US
dc.subjectborderland tourismen_US
dc.title.alternativeСЦЕНАРИИ КРАЙНЕГО СЕВЕРА И СУБНАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ РЕАЛИИ: ПОЛИТИКА И ПРАКТИКА В ПРИГРАНИЧНОЙ ЗОНЕ НОРВЕГИИ И РОССИИen_US
dc.titleHigh North scenarios and subnational realities: policies and practices in the Norwegian/Russian border zoneen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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