Abstract:

The reclamation of sea and abyssal plain as a result of glacier melting with the reason of global warming ended by global climate change, its capacity of rich natural resources and the idea of its big potantial of easy access to new shipping trade routes make the Arctic crucial globally in terms of political and economic perspectives and transform it as a jeopolitical arena. The Arctic, today constitutes a rivalry area for – its riparian states named as ‘Arctic Cinque’ – the US, Russian Federation, Canada, Norway and Denmark in terms of those states’ political and economic interests and those states increase their military precautions and investments on overland, airspace and sealand for preserving and controlling their political, economic and national security interests. This phenomenon creates a security dilemma among the rappian states relationships in spite of the efforts for Arctic security. This paper analyses the riparian states’ security strategies on the Arctic that has no legal status by an international agreement and the Arctic security dilemma emerged as a result of the rappian states’ fear and security concerns in the basement of interest conflict in the context of realism and liberalism.

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