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The Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community. The Arctic Council has offered a basic forum for circumpolar consultation and cooperation. This volume explores the efforts of Sweden, a recent Chair of the Arctic Council, to build an enhanced framework for consensus-building and governance within the region.

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1. An Introduction
2. Placing the Arctic within Analytical and Theoretical Frameworks
3. Efforts at Creating an Arctic Regime
4. The Swedish Chairmanship
5. The Project Unfolds
6. Assessing the Accomplishments of the Swedish Chairmanship
6. Considering the Future
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Douglas C. Nord is Visiting Professor of Political Science at Ume† University, Sweden who is an established scholar in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. His areas of specialty include the foreign and northern development policies of Canada, the Nordic states and Russia as well as the United States. He has written extensively on the relations between the countries of the circumpolar north and on the emergence of the Arctic as a central concern of contemporary international politics.

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