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(2016) Antarctica and the humanities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Scar as a healing process? reflections on science and polar politics in the cold war and beyond
the case of Norway
Stian Bones
pp. 231-249
The chapter discusses the quest for establishing multilateral agreements on Arctic research from the mid-1960s onwards. It shows how scientific cooperation in the Antarctic was regarded as a model for increased Arctic cooperation. The geopolitical pattern of the Arctic during Cold War, combined with the prevailing Soviet science diplomacy strategies, hampered these efforts, however. It was only with Mikhail Gorbachev's new thinking that the idea begun to resonate with Soviet Arctic strategies.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54575-6_10
Full citation:
Bones, S. (2016)., Scar as a healing process? reflections on science and polar politics in the cold war and beyond: the case of Norway, in R. Peder, L. Van Der Watt & A. Howkins (eds.), Antarctica and the humanities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-249.