how foreign policy concerns are intertwined with economic motives, be that hopes of access to the big Russian market or to the oil and gas fields on the Russian Arctic shelf. To achieve the combined goal of security and business, the Norwegian Government has regularly orchestrated ¿Arctic waves¿ to direct the attention of local, national and international politicians and businesses to the alleged opportunities of the North. In this book, the author takes us through ¿the Great Barents Awakening¿ of the 1990s, ¿the Great High North Enchantment¿ of the early 2000s and recent years¿ ¿Arctic wave¿ in Norwegian foreign policy.