GlobalArctic

The GlobalArctic project aims to foster a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach of the Arctic in a global ecological, cultural, economic, geopolitical and societal context. In particular, it aims, on the one hand, at understanding the dynamics of the Arctic, as it increasingly becomes part of global changes, the world-wide resources and transportation economy, as well as global geopolitics and geo-economics with a danger of an ‘irreversible collapse’ of industrial civilization. Yet, on the other hand, the Arctic already is, and increasingly will be, a key agent of global changes, as it is also a place from where a paradigmatic change in global governance, as well as that in security, can emerge. Consequently, the GlobalArctic project aims to become an international and interdisciplinary research project, as well as an international center of excellence, on the globalized Arctic with sites in several Arctic states and regions, and partners all over the Northern Hemisphere. The GlobalArctic project will respond to urgent political and scientific needs to gain a better understanding of the globalized Arctic with rapid regional and world-wide changes.