Geopolitics and Geostrategy of the GIUK Gap: Rising Stakes in a Strategic Sea Corridor

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=lDgomy6Pb8" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=lDgomy6Pb8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3849/1802-7199.24.2024.01.061-086" target="_blank" >10.3849/1802-7199.24.2024.01.061-086</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geopolitics and Geostrategy of the GIUK Gap: Rising Stakes in a Strategic Sea Corridor

Original language description

This study explores the geopolitical and geostrategic significance of the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland,United Kingdom) Gap, a region of the North Atlantic Ocean between those respective islands, part ofthe broader Arctic realm known as the High North. It begins with a short overview of the historicaldevelopment of the GIUK Gap&apos;s geopolitical and geostrategic significance, followed by an analysis ofthe region&apos;s current geopolitical and geostrategic dynamics. For the analysis, Walt&apos;s balance of threatwas employed as a neorealistic theoretical framework, with four specific variables chosen. This theoryassumes that states try to balance potential threats. The study highlights the growing importance ofthe GIUK Gap for both NATO and the Russian Federation, whose interests have increasingly clashed inrecent years. The paper argues that the deteriorating relations between NATO and Russia followingthe annexation of Crimea in 2014 have causally contributed to the growing importance of the GIUKGap.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Obrana a strategie

ISSN

1214-6463

e-ISSN

1802-7199

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

61-86

UT code for WoS article

001327157600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198839308