Geopolitica dell'Artico o Geopolitiche artiche?

This article aims to describe the impact of climate change in the Arctic under a different lens: the geopolitical one, introducing a new phase to traditional geopolitics, no longer shaped by power projections or by the possession or otherwise of superior military technology, but a geopolitics designed by an external phenomenon, uncontrollable by any power and that no conflict can order: climate change. For the first time in the history of international relations, there is a phenomenon that is reshaping the world order and where states can do nothing but suffer the consequences or try forward-looking strategies to be prepared. An illustrative scenario is the Arctic Circle. Previously, the order in the Arctic was well-defined and the logic that governed the region was that of exceptionalism, in which major decisions were made only among the Arctic states. The combination of climate change and new international dynamics has caused the abandonment of exceptionalism and the entry of new international actors into the Arctic arena. Using the diachronic order of events and the analysis of historical sources on the Arctic, the first part of the paper will describe the change, both quantitative and qualitative, of Arctic governance focusing on the entry of new states into the Arctic scenario: the Non-Arctic States. On the other hand, the second part will point out what interests’ states are pursuing in the Arctic today. To demonstrate the existence of a ‘pluralist’ concept of geopolitics.