De securitising circumpolar arctic in anthropocene a geopolitical analysis

Abstract

This research aims to explore and analyse remarkably diverse emerging security narratives/discourses in the Circumpolar Arctic. Drawing upon the insights from critical security studies (Copenhagen School) and critical geopolitics, this research critically examines the prospects of de-securitisation in the circumpolar Arctic, which, as pointed out above, provides graphical evidence of Anthropocene and climate change. Ole Waever of the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, has defined de-securitisation as a securitization move that fails due to the target audience refusing to accept the authority and legitimacy of an initial securitisation move. However, this definition stands broadened now in the sense that issues could be deliberately de-securitised not in consequence of any audience failure to accept securitisation but as a deliberate positive normative-political move to reject the newline exceptional realm of security politics . It is this broadened definition of de-securitisation that has been used for the purposes of this research. newline newline