Contents: 1. Introduction: Norway's strategic priority / Andreas Østhagen
Part I. Situating norway in the north
2. Norway in a changing high north / Ine Eriksen Søreide
Part II. Foreign policy and security
3. Geopolitics and increased tension? The art of differentiating between political dynamics in the arctic / Andreas Østhagen and Svein Vigeland Rottem
4. Security policy, Russia, and the high north / Ingeborg Nortvedt Bjur, Karen-Anna Eggen, and Paal Sigurd Hilde
5. Norway's flawed nordområdene policy / Torbjørn Pedersen and Odd Gunnar Skagestad
Part III. Issues and topics in norway's high north
6. Sea, fish, and resource management in the high north / Alf Håkon Hoel
7. Svalbard and the surrounding seas - new foreign policy challenges for norway? / Arild Moe and Øystein Jensen
8. The 'new superpower': What are China's intentions in the arctic? / Anders Christoffer Edstrøm, Iselin Stensdal, and Gørild M. Heggelund
9. Norwegian high north narratives and identity construction in the north / Beate Steinveg and Ingrid Agnete Medby
Index.