The 2nd edition of The Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic was just published including a chapter by Director Nadine C. Fabbi, “Inuit foreign policy & international relations in the Arctic.”
The Handbook was edited by Geir Hønneland, Research Professor, Andreas Østhagen, Research Director, Arctic and Ocean Politics, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Svein Vigeland Rottem, Senior Research Fellow, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. This timely Handbook explores how the Arctic has become a focal point in international relations in a manner unseen since the Cold War. Drawing on perspectives from international law, geopolitics, and other social sciences, this revised and expanded second edition provides an essential account of modern Arctic affairs.
Fabbi argues that the two declarations drafted to date by the international Inuit organization, the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) – A Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Sovereignty in the Arctic (2009) and A Circumpolar Inuit Declaration on Resource Development Principles in Inuit Nunaat (2011) – serve as foreign policy as they effectively insert Inuit voice and interests into the international political dialogue.
This chapter points to the influence of the 2009 Declaration on Canadian domestic policy, among other impacts, to argue that the ICC has indeed been successful in its efforts to integrate Inuit sovereignty into the larger political dialogue.
The Handbook of Politics of the Arctic is available through Edward Elgar Publishing https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-the-politics-of-the-arctic-9781035333707.html.