The Arctic Countries’ Supply Chain Strategies in The Context of Arctic Territory Delimitation

Isabella Damdinovna Elyakova
Roman Dmitrievich Sleptsov
Alexandr Alekseevich Pakhomov
Alexandr Lvovich Elyakov
Darya Victorovna Tumanova

International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 8, No 5 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

The article discusses the supply chain strategies of the so-termed Arctic Five – the Russian Federation, Canada, the USA, Norway and Denmark, which have borders in the Arctic in the context of the search for their common goals and objectives in order to develop possible ways and means to solve the main common problem – the territory delimitation in the Arctic between these countries. Much has been written about the legal methods of maritime delimitation in the Arctic, but their essence is to compare the principles of “Sectoral division” in the Arctic with the norms of the 1982 “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea”. Meanwhile, the current international situation and the current state of the Arctic countries in relation to each other in the sphere of military power, economy, science and climate change in the Arctic, force us to consider the issue of territory delimitation in the Arctic in an extensive aspect.