Pavel Devyatkin
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Articles by Pavel Devyatkin
The Role of Russia in Japan's Arctic Policy
Back to Publications Commentary, Japan, Japan Series 2026, Politics and Strategy, Russia Japanese Aurora sightseeing ice-breaker moving through sea ice in Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan.
Is NATO creating an Arctic crisis to placate Trump on Greenland?
Last week, NATO launched “Arctic Sentry,” a new “multi-domain activity” that, for the first time, places Allied operations in the Arctic under a single command structure. The move marks a significant scaling-up of NATO's footprint in the Arctic. But unfortunately, as NATO’s regional military presence increases, the mechanisms for preventing that footprint from generating a crisis are not keeping pace.
Dispatch from Guangzhou: Stabilizing US-China Relations in the Arctic
Back to Publications China, China Series 2025, Commentary, Law and Governance, Politics and Strategy, United States The Xue Long 2 Chinese research vessel, surveilled by the U.S. Coast Guard, approximately 290 nautical miles north of Utqiagvik, Alaska, July 2025. Photo: U.S. Coast Guard The Arctic Institute’s 2025 China Series: An Introduction What if? “Strategic Competition” vs.
What's New Podcast - Russia in the Arctic
Back to Publications In this What’s New Episode, Serafima Andreeva and Pavel Devyatkin talk about what the Arctic means for Russia in 2025. Photo: Serafima Andreeva What’s New? is a podcast on Arctic geopolitics, governance, and security. Created and hosted by Serafima Andreeva, and supported by The Arctic Institute and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
The Arctic Institute's 2025 China Series: An Introduction
Back to Publications China, China Series 2025, Commentary, Law and Governance, Politics and Strategy China’s Yellow River Arctic Station on Svalbard, 2010. Photo: Eating the Sun The Arctic Institute’s 2025 China Series: An Introduction China’s role in the Arctic continues to be an important research focus in 2025.
Restraint, Diplomacy, and Restoring Arctic Exceptionalism
Back to Publications Climate and Environment, Commentary, Indigenous Rights and Issues, Law and Governance, Politics and Strategy Left to Right – Cynthia Lazaroff (Board Member of the Arctic Institute), Pavel Devyatkin (Senior Associate at The Arctic Institute), Anatol Lieven (Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute), Jennifer Spence (Director of the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center), and Edward Alexander (Senior Arctic lead of the Woodwell Climate Research Center) speak...
Arctic Exceptionalism as Myth, Method, and Mirror
Back to Publications Climate and Environment, Commentary, Law and Governance, Politics and Strategy Meteor shower and Northern Lights over Snæfellsnes glacier, Iceland. Photo: Diana Robinson There is a story we tell ourselves about the Arctic. Every Arctic expert knows it by heart. It began in Murmansk, 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech that would later be inscribed as a founding moment in Arctic cooperation.
Geopolitics of the Arctic Circle
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 16 June, 2025 Bridging the Frontiers: Why Sweden should integrate its Arctic and Indo-Pacific Strategies
Uncertainty and Tension: Russia reacts to Trump’s Greenland Proposal
Back to Publications Commentary, Defense and Security, Denmark and Greenland, Law and Governance, Russia, United States Postcard from Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Thomas Letholsen US President-elect Donald Trump’s statements about acquiring Greenland not exempting economic or military means received critical reactions from Russian officials.
There’s nuclear threat yet Russian gas keeps flowing across Ukraine. Why?
Trump Sparks Renewed Interest in Greenland: But ‘Greenland Belongs to the People of Greenland’
Russia's Arctic Rise
NATO in the Arctic: The Arctic Institute’s NATO Series 2024-2025 (Part I) The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 21 October, 2024
China and the Arctic in 2023: Final Remarks
Back to Publications ArcGov, China, China Series 2023, Commentary Snow sculptures from the Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, northeast China, 2014. Photo: Rita Willaert The Arctic Institute’s 2023 short series about China and the Arctic has explored Beijing’s positions in and on the Far North.
China and the Arctic: Reflections in 2023
Back to Publications ArcGov, China, China Series 2023, Commentary, Politics and Strategy Pavel Devyatkin and some of the students and professors of the Polar and Ocean Portal at the Ocean University of China in Qingdao in 2023. Photo: Pavel Devyatkin Is there really a Russian-Chinese partnership in the Arctic? What is China’s role in the Arctic and how far does it go beyond climate change and environmental protection?
Western sanctions and distrust draw China, Russia closer in the Arctic
Western sanctions and distrust draw China, Russia closer in the Arctic The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 26 June, 2023
The Arctic in the 2023 Russian Foreign Policy Concept
Back to Publications Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before an expanded meeting of the CIS Heads of State Council in Turkmenistan in October 2019. Photo: The Kremlin On the last day of March 2023, after many months of inter-department approvals, the Kremlin published a new version of its Foreign Policy Concept – the main Russian doctrinal document that reveals how Russia sees and would like to see the world and itself in it.
Can Arctic Cooperation be Restored?
Back to Publications Iceland hands over the Arctic Council gavel to Russia, May 2021. Photo: Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs The Arctic Institute Arctic Collaboration Series 2023 Arctic Collaboration: The Arctic Institute’s Spring Series 2023 Decolonization and Arctic Engagement: A Critical Analysis of Resource Development in the US Arctic Where do we go from here? The Fate of Scientific and Cultural Collaborations for Young People in the Arctic Conflict or Collaboration?
Spanish: La OTAN alerta contra una escalada militar de Rusia en el Ártico
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 12 December, 2022 The Polar Cruise Industry and the Political Landscape in the Arctic Region: Russia in Focus The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 5 December, 2022
The Future of Arctic Governance - El futuro de la gobernanza del Ártico
Back to Publications Flags of the eight Arctic states and six Permanent Participants at a Senior Arctic Officials’ US 2015-2017 Chairmanship meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska 20-22 October 2015. Photo: Arctic Council Secretariat / Linnea Nordström Climate change is warming the Arctic three times faster than the global average in recent decades.
How Is Climate Change Shaping Russia’s Arctic Policy and Activities?
Back to Publications Russian policymakers and scientists, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at a meeting on the development of the Arctic in Novo-Ogaryovo in April 2022. Photo: Kremlin.ru Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our century and Russia is one of the most affected countries. This chapter explores how immense transformations of the Arctic environment are reflected in the rhetoric and activities of Russian Arctic policy.
Arctic Council in upheaval over Russia as climate change transforms region
China-Russia Arctic Cooperation in the Context of a Divided Arctic The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 27 March, 2023
The Arctic: The New Cold War?
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 27 March, 2023 The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 20 March, 2023
The Arctic Institute After Ten Years: A Dynamic Think Tank for a Changing Region - Infographic
Back to Publications Back at Arctic Frontiers 2013, The Arctic Institute and its initial fellows – Tom Fries, Andreas Raspotnik, Kathrin Stephen (née Keil), Andreas Østhagen and Malte Humpert – assembled for the first time as a group. Photo: The Arctic Institute The Arctic Institute (TAI) is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and has been celebrating this milestone with the launch of a year-long tenth anniversary series to reflect on this decade.
Russian: Cold War: How a New Gold Rush Leads People to Tragedy
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 17 June, 2024 Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend: As The Whitehorse Star’s 124-Year Run Concludes, its Legacy Continues to Shine Brightly Across the North The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 10 June, 2024
Environmental Détente: What can we learn from the Cold War to manage today’s Arctic Tensions and Climate Crisis?
Back to Publications Article, Climate and Environment, Conflict Series 2021, Defense and Security, OceanGov, Russia, United States NASA scientists collect water samples to examine chemistry and plankton in the Arctic Ocean, 2011. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Much recent discussion has focused on the contemporary militarization of Arctic and subarctic regions.
Vulnerable Communities: How has the COVID-19 Pandemic affected Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic?
Back to Publications Article, Climate and Environment, COVID19 Series 2020-2021, Indigenous Rights and Issues, Russia Field camp of Dolgan reindeer herders in Khatanga, Krasnoyarsk Krai, July 1993. Photo: Peter Prokosch With the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the world has found itself in a global health emergency, which has caused a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and brought normal life around the world to a halt for the better part of a year.
Russia’s Arctic Strategy: Energy Extraction (Part III)
Back to Publications Article, Natural Resources and Energy, Politics and Strategy, Russia, Russia Arctic Strategy Series 2018 Arctic offshore oil platform “Prirazlomnaya” in the Pechora Sea, south of Novaya Zemlya, Russia. Photo: Gazprom. This four article series critically examines Russia’s military, energy, and shipping interests in the Arctic and how Russian policies and actions compare to the existing academic and journalistic rhetoric about the Arctic region.
Russia’s Arctic Strategy: Aimed at Conflict or Cooperation? (Part I)
Back to Publications Article, Politics and Strategy, Russia, Russia Arctic Strategy Series 2018 Russian Special Forces in the 200th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet training with reindeer sleds. Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation This four article series critically examines Russia’s military, energy, and shipping interests in the Arctic and how Russian policies and actions compare to the existing academic and journalistic rhetoric about the Arctic region.
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