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From: Lizemarie Van der Watt <[log in to unmask]>
This seminar will now be webcast live, with the possibility to ask
questions to the panel through a web chat. The streaming will start
at local time 14.30 in Stockholm (we are UTC +1) on
http://www.kth.se/live or on the research programme web site
http://www.arcticfutures.se.
Thanks for picking up the announcement!
Lize-Marie
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SME van der Watt, Ph.D. (Lize-Marie)
Project manager
International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)
Swedish Polar Research Secratariat
Box 50003
104 05 Stockholm SWEDEN
+46 84502514
www.arcticchange.org / www.polar.se
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Asian Arctic expansion? Non-Arctic states and the Arctic Council
Location: Sweden
Date Submitted: 2013-01-31
Announcement ID: 200943
The first Stockholm Arctic Seminar for 2013 takes up this politically
sensitive issue of Asian observer states. The cases for their
inclusion, their interests in the Arctic, and the future role of
observer states within the Arctic Council will be discussed with four
experts on the Arctic Council and several of the countries in
question:
Dr. Aki Tonami, a researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies,
University of Copenhagen. Her main research areas include Japan's
international relations and environmental governance. Karl Hallding,
head of the China Cluster at the Stockholm Environment Institute with
extensive experience from international co-operation with China on
environment and sustainable development since the mid 1980s.
Piotr Graczyk, researcher and PhD. candidate at the Univeristy of
Troms, and expert on Arctic politics and the history and internal
dynamics of the Arctic Council.
Mia Bennett, a Gates Scholar researching polar issues at the
University of Cambridge. She is an expert on Koreas interests and
ambitions in the Arctic.
Time: Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 14:30 - 16:30
Place: Lecture hall E3, Osquars backe 14, Royal Institute of
Technology/ KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract: Heightened geopolitical interest in the Arctic has prompted
an array of non-Arctic states to assert themselves as stakeholders in
Arctic affairs. Despite their lack of geographic proximity, China,
India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea as well as the European
Union have in recent years applied to become Permanent Observers to
the Arctic Council, the regions foremost governing body. The decision
on whether to admit these recent applicant states will be announced at
the ministerial meeting in Kiruna in May, bringing a dose of political
drama to the conclusion of Swedens Arctic Council chairmanship.
Lize-Marie van der Watt
International Project Office
International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC)
c/o Polarforskningssekretariatet
Box 50003
104 05 Stockholm SWEDEN
+46 84502514
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