Dr. Corine Wood-Donnelly is an Associate Professor of International Relations and the High North. At Nord University, she is the cross-faculty coordinator for Arctic research, and also leads the IASSA Working Group on Arctic Justice and the Disaster Research Group at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She was the Scientific Coordinator for JUSTNORTH (EU project 869327) from 2020-2024.
Corine has regional expertise in the Arctic with substantive knowledge of governance frameworks, maritime law and state practices. Corine received her both her Ph.D. in Government Research and her M.A. in International Relations from Brunel University. She is a member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. In 2016, she became an accredited Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Her research interests include maritime search and rescue, maritime territory and resource sovereignty, performative geopolitics, values in sustainability and Arctic justice.
As a scholar of the Arctic, Corine conducts interdisciplinary work within International Relations and geography, but also draws from public international law, history and theories of justice. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume with Bristol University Press on Arctic Justice: Environment, Society & Governance.
Research Interests:
Arctic, Subarctic & Cryosphere: Political and legal geography of the Arctic and Antarctica. Including: Governance and the relationship of Arctic states with non-Arctic states and non-state actors. Sovereignty and practices of (neo) imperialism/postcolonialism in the Polar Regions in territorial eveolution. Policy and mechanisms for managing climate change, economic development and environmental concerns.
International Law & Governance: Issues of sovereignty over maritime territory and the spatial conceptualisation of territory within legal frameworks which permit resource exploitation. Use of extra-territorial legal mechanisms in safety/environmental issues. Implications of the Polar Code on the development of policy for the Arctic Maritime. Transboundary water law/policy and global glacial water resources. Issues related to state practice in maritime search & rescue.
Normative Theory: Development and transformations within the international system. Issues of the analysis and conceptualisation of behaviour within international relations between agents with different interests, identities and political reckoning. Rules (including international law) of the international system and how they are introduced, maintained or invalidated. Evolution of the sovereign state. The role of normative justice and values in Arctic futures.
Corine has regional expertise in the Arctic with substantive knowledge of governance frameworks, maritime law and state practices. Corine received her both her Ph.D. in Government Research and her M.A. in International Relations from Brunel University. She is a member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research. In 2016, she became an accredited Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and in 2017 became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Her research interests include maritime search and rescue, maritime territory and resource sovereignty, performative geopolitics, values in sustainability and Arctic justice.
As a scholar of the Arctic, Corine conducts interdisciplinary work within International Relations and geography, but also draws from public international law, history and theories of justice. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume with Bristol University Press on Arctic Justice: Environment, Society & Governance.
Research Interests:
Arctic, Subarctic & Cryosphere: Political and legal geography of the Arctic and Antarctica. Including: Governance and the relationship of Arctic states with non-Arctic states and non-state actors. Sovereignty and practices of (neo) imperialism/postcolonialism in the Polar Regions in territorial eveolution. Policy and mechanisms for managing climate change, economic development and environmental concerns.
International Law & Governance: Issues of sovereignty over maritime territory and the spatial conceptualisation of territory within legal frameworks which permit resource exploitation. Use of extra-territorial legal mechanisms in safety/environmental issues. Implications of the Polar Code on the development of policy for the Arctic Maritime. Transboundary water law/policy and global glacial water resources. Issues related to state practice in maritime search & rescue.
Normative Theory: Development and transformations within the international system. Issues of the analysis and conceptualisation of behaviour within international relations between agents with different interests, identities and political reckoning. Rules (including international law) of the international system and how they are introduced, maintained or invalidated. Evolution of the sovereign state. The role of normative justice and values in Arctic futures.