Maritime Security in the Arctic

Oct 22, 2024 | Danish Institute for International Studies
Copenhagen, Denmark
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We have heard that great power rivalry has come to the Arctic. Not least increasing confrontations between Russia and the US, but also China. Denmark stands in the middle and has to align with the rest of the commonwealth on issues related to security and development in their part of the Arctic.

At the same time, the melting ice is changing the region’s navigational and operational conditions with consequences for commercial and security policy actors, as well as climatic impact. It also creates the potential for new maritime routes, and sparks different interests among the region’s actors.

Denmark will take over the chairmanship for the Arctic Council in 2025. Even though the Danish commonwealth currently has no Arctic strategy, it is clear that the commonwealth has commercial and security policy interests in the Arctic, not least in the maritime domain. 

What are the geopolitical, legal and economic implications of the developments we are seeing at the moment – for Denmark, for peace and security in the Arctic? In this seminar, three specialists provide us with possible answers.

The seminar is the second of three DIIS seminars on maritime security. It is organised together with Maritime Research Alliance. Watch or re-watch the first seminar on maritime security in the South China Sea. 

Stay tuned for the next seminar about security developments in the Baltic Sea, which will take place in January 2025.

Thomas Roslyng Olesen, Head of Secretariat, Maritime Research Alliance

Jessica Larsen, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard, PhD student, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Stella Ebbersmeyer, PhD student, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

Mads Qvist Frederiksen, Executive Director, Arctic Economic Council