Abstract:

As a result of the global climate change, the melting ice caps have revealed the economic opportunities in the Polar Regions and this change has led to question the status of the two regions. On the contrary of Antarctic as a common heritage of mankind, Arctic become conflict zone  between sovereign nation states. This study analyses the activities of international society in Polar Regions based on the English School theory. Moreover, comparing the legal, economic and political status of the Polar Regions, the distinction between the pluralist-solidarist approaches of the English School was evaluated within the context of the difference between order and justice. Unlike Antarctica, where the solidarity of international community has ensured the order with the perspective of justice; the governance in the Arctic Region provided by the international community is based on a pluralistic perspective, which is regulated by the institutions such as diplomacy and international law of English School theory.

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