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This book review considersArctic Law and Governance: The Role of China andFinland, a new volume edited by Timo Koivurova, Tianbao Qin, Tapio Nyka ̈nen, andSebastien Duyck. The book represents the culmination of a joint project between researchersfrom the University of Lapland, Finland and Wuhan University, China. In the volume, theArctic policies of China, Finland, and the European Union are compared. Special attention isgiven to maritime sovereignty, science, marine conservation and management, the UnitedNations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Svalbard Treaty, and the Arctic Council.Overall, the volume presents a rich, detailed account of China’s activities in the Arctic,though the chapters by the Chinese authors tend to be somewhat less analytical than those bythe European contributors. The case for comparing China with Finland and the EuropeanUnionisnotalwayswhollyconvincing,butthereaderisultimatelyleftwithanunderstandingof how cooperation could arise in the Arctic between these three unlikely partners in twoshared areas of interest: development of Arctic resources and transportation. Such work isvaluable, for it demonstrates that the aims of Arctic and non-Arctic stakeholders are notnecessarily at odds simply due to differences in geograp