Arktida a světový řád

For many centuries, the Arctic – a faraway, inaccessible, frost-afflicted region – had had only a marginal importance for the world order. Today, it has come to the foreground of the most significant global trends. It is the epicenter of the global climate crisis, which affects every single person. It is becoming the front line between economic, political, and military ambitions on the one hand and environmental degradation on the other. The Arctic legal regime plays a pioneering role in introducing innovative forms of governance. The Arctic region is no longer the last white spot on the world map, it is our first frontier. In this collective monograph, theoreticians and hands-on experts – from Anchorage to Moscow, from Nuuk to Hong Kong – address the political, legal, social, economic, geostrategic, and environmental challenges that the Arctic region has to cope with in the face of global warming and the changing world order. The authors also reflect on what these challenges may bring about in the upcoming decades.