Role of the Arctic Council Chairmanship
Malgorzata Smieszek & Paula Kankaanpää
In spite of its arguable relevance the question of the role of the chair in the Arctic Council (AC) has until now received relatively
little academic attention. When in 2013 Canada assumed the AC chairmanship, which rotates on the biennial basis among the
Council’s Members, the Arctic Council entered the second round of chairmanships, with the first one being over after sixteen years
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