The Pressure to Adapt: Understanding the EU's Perception of Its Role in Arctic Security Governance
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the nature of the European Union’s articulation of its role in the Arctic region as a security actor. To do so, this study employs a theoretical framework built on existing EU actorness theory and a qualitative content analysis methodology to code and examine select EU institutional documents between 2021 and 2026. This study assesses the temporal drivers of change in the EU’s articulation of its ambitions as a global actor and finds that key external events and global developments, namely the war caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the Trump administration’s expansionist position concerning Greenland during the president’s second term, have served to both constrain and enable EU actorness regarding Arctic security in unique ways
Source: UNC Libraries
DOI: 10.17615/g6j7-f133
Author: Tate, Miranda
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7203859924
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