Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, this text offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. It presents a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States - UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark.

This book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty.

This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States: UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. Contributors explore how states and state-like entities play 'sovereignty games' to understand how a group of...

Though it s many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It s a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated on a general assumption that Greenland is on a path toward eventual independence. In both nations, he shows, discussion of Greenland invokes the idea of the community of the realm while recognizing Greenland s continuing reliance on aid as it moves toward independence. As climate change is beginning to open up new areas of Greenland to...