Over the Circle

Iceland will be going back to the polls in three weeks, and after a slow start to the campaign, updated polls, issues and party platforms have begun to make an appearance. A survey [in Icelandic] taken by the news services Fréttablaðið, Stöð 2 and Vísir on 4 October suggested the Left-Greens (VG) remained the most… Continue reading Iceland’s Election: A Week is a Long Time in Politics →

In recent years, the volume level in the longstanding debate about whether the time was ripe for security issues to be added to the growing array of Arctic regional organisations, either connected to or cooperating with the Arctic Council, has increased. One recent article was very critical of the idea of an Arctic security forum,… Continue reading Arctic (In)security and the Question of Cooperation →

For the second time in less than a year, Icelanders will be voting in parliamentary elections on 28 October, after another period of political upheaval which saw the unstable centre-right coalition government collapse last month. This vote will also mark the second time in a year that an election was forced due to a political… Continue reading Iceland’s Election: Take Two →