The main narratives of relations between circumpolar states in modern geopolitics

The Arctic is attracting increasing attention from both governments and academia. Some of the region’s most distinctive environmental, security, and economic features are undergoing significant changes. Each Arctic state rightly develops its own strategy for relationships with its neighbors and other stakeholders in the region. In this paper, we will try to examine and analyze how these relationships have changed over time, depending on the state and development of international relations in the world. Particular attention is paid to events that occurred in the world before and after 2014. It was during this period that unfriendly states continued to escalate and complicate the international situation and relations with the Russian Federation, using sanctions and other dubious instruments. Despite the complexities of the state of world politics, the Arctic territory should remain open to cooperation between states interested in this region. We are confident that the Arctic should remain a territory of peace and international dialogue, and we very much hope that in the future of international relations everything will develop this way.

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