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Constructing Arctic security: an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding security in the Barents region

Kamrul Hossain, Gerald Zojer, Wilfrid Greaves, J. Miguel Roncero, Michael Sheehan

Polar Record, Volume: 53, Issue: 01, Pages: 52 - 66

Swansea University Author: Michael Sheehan

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/S0032247416000693

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Although traditionally Security Studies focused on military threats to states' survival, however, since the end of the Cold War the concept of security has widened and individuals and communities have gradually become viewed as appropriate referent objects of security. In the Arctic region, the...

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ISSN: 0032-2474 1475-3057
Published: 2017
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