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Through the Arctic, and more specifically with the example of the Arctic Council, I explained the working of a new global governing model. Within this model Worldwide cooperation between nations is necessary to tackle the events caused by climate change and happening within the Arctic environment. Especially since power isn’t isolated within the narrow-conceived notion of a nation’s state space. XCI New ways to govern an area, as pointed out within this paper, open up new opportunities for countries to work together.
Furthermore, it is not possible to perceive the Arctic region as one single nation. Bodies such as the Arctic five and Arctic Council make it challenging to understand the exact borderlines of the area. Besides, for a long time, it was unclear who inhabits the Arctic, which made it difficult to perceive as a human territory. Now, the knowledge about the inhabitation in the Arctic leads to increasing worldwide awareness of the impact climate change has within the Arctic. Especially because the indigenous communities provide an intimacy that help to achieve a global and common sense of urgency. Still, it is complicated to relate to the events happening within the Arctic and connect these events to other impacts situated somewhere else on the globe. Here the notion of a Hyperobject, can work as a tool to connect the global with the local and creates the feeling that climate change comes closer to our daily environment.
The Arctic functioned within this dissertation as a tool to explain the significance of this region not only within its unclearly defined borders but, more importantly, around the whole world. On the one side, this paper reveals the significance of the Arctic region as a place to perceive the effects of climate change, and on the other side, it also points to the international attention that is paid to the Arctic by unveiling the governing bodies such as the Arctic Council and the Arctic Five. These bodies are unknown for various people but are extremely important to sustain peace within this Northern region. Thus, the question is, could these governing systems who composes the Arctic region lead to an understanding of this territory as a place, a geographic area owned by several nations and besides also provide a global governing system for the impacts of climate change.
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