Geopolitics in the High North

Under the leadership of the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) and financed by the Norwegian Research Council, CSIS has entered into a five-year collaborative research project with a consortium of international think tanks and scholars to examine and analyze the growing geopolitical strategic importance of the High North region. The project’s main focus is on how a range of factors, notably great power interests, affect the potential for cooperation on conflict in the High North in particular, and the Arctic in general.

Partners
In addition to the primary partnership with IFS, which is spearheading this long-term interdisciplinary project, CSIS will be working with a consortium of international institutions including:

• The Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo (UiO)
• The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI)
• The Departments of History and Political Science and the Faculty of Law of the University of Tromsø (UiTø)
• Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
• The Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IUH), Moscow, in cooperation with Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

To learn more about this project please visit  www.geopoliticsnorth.org, the official website for the “Geopolitics in the High North” research program.