A Subregional Approach to Security and Geography

This chapter summarises the findings from across the previous chapters and attempts to discuss both the ‘region’ status of the Arctic, and what the Arctic is a case of in terms of security dynamics, regionality, and security regions. First, it evaluates the relevance and usefulness of security regions theories – the RSCT in particular – in unpacking Arctic security relations. Thereafter it takes a look at what these findings mean for the study of security regions and regional security complexes more broadly. It concludes with an emphasis on state-centric small-scale SRSCs, which can roughly be conceptualised as circles of overlapping spatial and security domains (i.e., a Venn diagram), before musing about the increasing relevance of maritime ‘regions’ in security considerations.