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Dieser Beitrag fokussiert die Entwicklung der Konzeptionen (indigener) Souveränität und die der Governance von Territorialität im Kontext des regionalen Forums des Arktischen Rates, welcher von Beobachter*innen immer wieder als Vorbild für politische Partizipation und Interessenvertretung indigener Akteur*innen für die globale Governance-Ebene betrachtet wird. Die Analyse umfasst einen Vergleich der offiziellen Konzeptionen des Arktischen Rates einerseits und der des Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) andererseits. Ziel der Analyse ist die genauere Erfassung und Typologisierung der jeweiligen Souveränitätskonzeptionen, um so herauszuarbeiten, inwiefern indigene Konzeptionen Eingang in die politischen Diskussionen innerhalb des Rates finden beziehungsweise seinen politischen Output beeinflussen. Darauf aufbauend wird im Rahmen einer erweiterten Perspektive der wechselseitige Einfluss zwischen dem Arktischen Rat, globalen Konventionen und transnationalen Akteur*innen in Form des ICC analysiert. Damit kann deren jeweilige Rolle bezüglich der (Weiter-)Entwicklung von Souveränitätskonzeptionen herausgearbeitet und nicht zuletzt geklärt werden, inwieweit der Arktische Rat in diesem Themenfeld als ein Normunternehmer betrachtet werden kann.

Sustainable development in the Arctic is based on formation of regime and mechanisms for enhancing the circumpolar regional cooperation of the rim-states and for diversification of interactions between stakeholders in implementation of 2030 sustainable development goals. Coordination and integration of their regional and domestic environmental and socio-economic priorities is a key for this endeavor. The success of innovative architecture for sustainability governance system depends to a high extent on scrupulous taking into account the specifics of the polar context, and growing interdependence with expanding involvement of the Arctic into the global economy. Effective regional instrument in this respect is the Arctic Council: the outcomes presented for its recent 25-year anniversary indicate that its focus on integrated scientific assessment of major trends and synergies between ongoing dynamic changes in fragile Arctic ecosystems and their consequences for transformations in socio-economic systems had produced unique results. Accumulated knowledge and practices are among the core foundations for multi-level decision-making process by its participants (arctic states, permanent participants, observers) for sustainability governance design and sustainability regime formation, benefiting at the same time the coordination of various approaches towards human responses to regional challenges. In fact the sustainable development agenda has been turning into a red thread across activities of the Arctic Council and its working groups, as well as within its innovative strategic planning up to 2030. Recent geopolitical drivers, however, might contribute to disintegration trends in the region, and negatively affect implementation of its sustainability strategy. So far, the Arctic Council is pausing all official meetings until further notice.

After the political elections of February 2013, one of the tasks of the Ministry of Health of the new Government will be the development of the new edition – the third – of the National Prevention Plan (NPP), after the NPP 2005-2007 and the NPP 2010-2012. A brainstorming process about the recent experience of the NPP 2010-2012 is important not only to elaborate technical indications for new plan, but also to make some reflections on.

Among the Indigenous polities of precolonial Mesoamerica, the Aztec empire, headed by a confederation of three city-states, was the largest recorded and remains the best understood, due to its chronicling in Spanish and Nahuatl texts following the Spanish-Aztec war and colonial transformation to New Spain. Yet its political organization is routinely mischaracterized in popular media, and lesser-known contemporaries and predecessors in central Mexico exhibit variability in governing strategies over time and space of interest to comparatively oriented scholars of premodern polities. Common themes in governance tended to draw from certain socio-technological realities and shared ontologies of religion and governing ideologies. Points of divergence can be seen in the particular entanglements between political economies and the settings and scales of collective action. In this paper, I review how governance varied synchronically and diachronically in central Mexico across these axes, and especially in relation to resource dilemmas, fiscal financing, the relative strength of corporate groups versus patron-client networks, and how rulership was legitimated. ; Published version