Baseline of Russian Arctic Laws

Foreword by Paul Arthur Berkman, Alexander N. Vylegzhanin and Oran R. Young.- Preface by Alexander N. Vylegzhanin.- Part 1: Treaties (selected provisions).- Regional Treaty Law.- Bilateral Treaties of Arctic States.- Bilateral Treaties with Russia.- Bilateral Treaties of other Arctic States.- Part 2: Subsidiary Means for the Determination of Rules of International Law (selected provisions).- Part 3: Relevant Laws and Other Legal Acts of Russia (selected provisions).- Part 4: Legislative Fundamentals of Arctic Policies of Foreign States and of the European Union (selected provisions).- Index.

Paul Arthur Berkman

Science Diplomat, Oceanographer, Polar Explorer and Global Thought Leader Professor Paul Arthur Berkman is building connections between science, diplomacy and information technology to promote cooperation and prevent discord, balancing national interests and common interests for the benefit of all on Earth. He was a visiting professor at the University of California at the age of 23, after wintering the previous year in Antarctica on a SCUBA research expedition, evolving two decades later into a textbook on Science Into Policy. He was a Fulbright Distinguished and Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the University of Cambridge, chairing the Antarctic Treaty Summit at the Smithsonian Institution in 2009 with legacy through the first book on Science Diplomacy and then the first formal NATO-Russia dialogue the following year regarding Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean with legacy contributions through a successful Springer publication ofthe same name. He currently coordinates the Arctic Options and Pan-Arctic Options projects (involving support from national science agencies in the United States, Russian Federation, Norway, France, China and Canada from 2013-2020) as well as a Carnegie Corporation project on US-Russia Relations. In September 2015, he joined the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University as Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy and is now Director of the Science Diplomacy Center as a university-wide initiative. For his interdisciplinary research and publications, including the November 2017 policy forum published in Science on Arctic Science Agreement Propels Science Diplomacy, as well as other contributions, Prof. Berkman has received many awards nationally and internationally, most recently the Vernadsky Medal from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2017.  

Alexander N. Vylegzhanin, Doctor of Law, Professor, is a Head of the