An ocean in the making : non-Arctic actors and emerging Arctic legal orders -- 2 The current and future role of non-Arctic states in Arctic governance -- The rise of Asia and Arctic legal order-making : political-economic settings -- Japan's role in formation and strengthening of Arctic legal orders -- China's Arctic policy white paper and its influence on the future of Arctic legal developments -- Our homeland : Arctic indigenous peoples' perspectives on non-Arctic states -- Sustaining a conservationist agenda? : NGO influence on Arctic sealing, whaling and hydrocarbon regimes -- The Arctic Five-plus-Five process on central Arctic Ocean fisheries negotiations : reflecting the interests of Arctic and non-Arctic actors -- Participation in the Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement -- The role of transnational knowledge networks and epistemic communities in Arctic shipping governance -- Russia's legislative development pertaining to the Northern Sea Route and its interactions with Sino-Russian Arctic cooperation -- The Arctic Science Cooperation Agreement : a perspective from non-Arctic actors -- State Observers and science cooperation in the Arctic Council : same same but different? -- China in the Arctic Council : existing problems and prospective solutions