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International Area Studies Review
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International Area Studies Review - Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.184-203
ISSN: 2233-8659 (Print)
Print publication date 30 Jun 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69473/iasr.2025.28.2.184

Implementation of the Arctic Strategy by the EU’s Arctic States and the Prospects

Hyuk Jeong*
Polar Research Center, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea

Correspondence to: *Email: hyeokjeong@hotmail.com

Abstract

This article analyzes, and discusses the most recent EU’s Arctic states’ strategies towards their Arctic region, and draws 3 common strategy realms out of them, and presents the prospects for each of the 3 common strategy realms following further analyses and discussions relevant to the common strategy realms. The realms are climate change impacts and the responses, reinforcing security against Russia, and wellbeing of the indigenous people. It should be noted that cooperation among the EU Artic states and other policy actors in the region, the Arctic Council, international agreements, non-EU states in the Arctic, observers to the Arctic Council, and the EU or non-EU organizations representing the indigenous in the Arctic, should be considered as prerequisite that underlies effective implementation of the primary policies in the EU’s Arctic states’ 3 common strategy realms. Last but not least, if it would be tough for the EU Arctic states to be engaged in given issues in the Arctic region with other policy actors even when taking that approach for solutions, then, it is invariably significant that the EU Arctic states endeavor to derive binding agreements concerned with the given issues, at least, among themselves if necessary, showing cohesiveness.

Keywords:

EU, Arctic, Strategy, Climate change, Security, Indigenous

AI Acknowledgment

Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were not used in any way to prepare, write, or complete essential authoring tasks in this manuscript.

Conflict of Interests

The author declares that there is no conflict of interest.

Funding

The author received no financial support for the research.

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