Introduction Part I Norway 1 Norway’s Approach to the Arctic: Policies and Discourse Geir Hønneland and Leif Christian Jensen 2 Actors, Strategies and Networks in a New Bipolar Geopolitical Research- and Policy Agenda: The Case of Norway Leif Christian Jensen and Svein Vigeland Rottem 3 Soft Law, Solid Implementation? Norwegian follow-up of Arctic Council Recommendations Ida Folkestad Soltvedt 4 How Arctic Science Travels: POPs, Norway and the Stockholm Convention Svein Vigeland Rottem Part II Russia 5 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Rush for the North Pole Geir Hønneland 6 Space and Timing: Why was the Barents Sea Delimitation Dispute Resolved in 2010? Arild Moe, Daniel Fjærtoft and Indra Øverland 7 The Russian Arctic Debate: The Delimitation Line in the Barents Sea Geir Hønneland 8 Russia’s Revised Arctic Seabed Submission Øystein Jensen Part III Asian States 9 Asia in the Arctic: Policies, Stakes, and Involvement Olav Schram Stokk 10 Coming of age? Asian Arctic research, 2004–13 Iselin Stensdal 11 Much Ado about Something? China in Arctic Resource Development: Greenland and the Isua Iron-ore Project Iselin Stensdal 12 China’s Climate Policy: Does an Arctic Dimension Exist? Gørild Heggelund Epilogue Bibliography Index