Interview with Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant Professor of IR at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize
Turkey is among non-regional actors in the Arctic. Though the country hasn’t published an Arctic strategy as a separate official document, it still has the vision, interests and goals in the region, as well as a well-established Polar science and research program. Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant Professor of IR at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize, Türkiye, highlights Turkey’s Arctic and Polar...
... (albeit indirectly) on a regular basis. In the course of such interaction, the rivals would learn to better understand each other’s interests and motivations, gradually building up mutual trust. The Arctic and the Antarctic, with its long experience of international cooperation in science, biodiversity conservation and environmental protection, are best suited for this purpose. Spreading the best practices of cooperation from these regions of the planet to the “roof” or “top of the world,” as ...
... countries. Industrial development of the Arctic region entails an intensive exploitation of its mineral resources, transport development and biological resources production. Given a special vulnerability of the harsh Arctic nature, there is a need for international cooperation, analysis of and actions to conserve, to the greatest extent possible, the natural habitat. This also necessitates development and implementation of a rational multi-product environmentally-balanced model of sustainable environmental ...
