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

ISBN-13: 9780367362348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 164 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.

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