The Arctic Council Is Not What It Used to Be! War, Russia, and Keeping Arctic Cooperation Alive! “The Arctic Council is not what it used to be.” Speaking at the Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø, Espen Barth Eide delivers a sober assessment of Arctic cooperation in the shadow of the war in Ukraine. With political-level meetings frozen and relations with Russia fundamentally changed, he explains why the Arctic Council still matters—and why current and past chairships are determined to keep it