Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy Between High and Low Politics

ISBN-13: 9781138061095 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

Kristian Soby Kristensen; Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen

Opis

This book examines the international politics of semi-independent Greenland in a changing and increasingly globalised Arctic. It analyses how a distinct Greenlandic foreign policy identity shapes political ends and means, how relations to its parent state of Denmark is both a burden and a resource, and how Greenlandic actors use and influence regional institutional settings, foreign states and commercial actors to produce an increasingly independent – if not sovereign – entity. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Arctic governance and security, international relations, sovereignty, geopolitics, paradiplomacy and indigenous affairs.

Spis treści

Introduction: Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics 1. Setting the Scene in Nuuk: Introducing the Cast of Characters in Greenlandic Foreign Policy Narratives 2. Independence through International Affairs: How Foreign Relations Shaped Greenlandic Identity Before 1979 3. Greenlandic Sovereignty in Practice: Uranium, Independence, and Foreign Relations in Greenland between Three Logics of Security 4. The Arctic Turn: How did the High North become a Foreign and Security Policy Priority for Denmark? 5. Lightning Rod: US, Greenlandic and Danish Relations in the Shadow of Post-colonial Reputations 6. Chinese Investments in Greenland: Promises and Risks as Seen from Nuuk, Copenhagen and Beijing 7. The Politics of Economic Security: Denmark, Greenland and Chinese Mining Investment 8. The Divergent Scalar Strategies of the Greenlandic Government and the Inuit Circumpolar Council 9. Greenland and the Arctic Council: Subnational Regions in a Time of Arctic Westphalianisation 10. Materialising Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics Conclusion: The Opportunities and Challenges of Greenlandic Paradiplomacy