Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland are a further reminder of the decline of the US-led liberal world order

• Main Author: Gad, Ulrik Pram
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Greenland; Circus Trump; liberal world order; international politics; Denmark; US-led liberal world order; independence
• Online Access: https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/e1da705b-722f-4417-aa4a-cab9215ee810; https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/08/27/donald-trumps-designs-on-greenland-are-a-further-reminder-of-the-decline-of-the-us-led-liberal-world-order/

Last week President Trump floated the idea that the US could purchase Greenland from Denmark, earning him a rebuke from that country’s Prime Minister. Ulrik Pram Gad writes that the spat between Denmark and Trump over Greenland shows that the president’s slow dismantling of the US-led liberal world order has now also become the problem of smaller nations – and the Arctic. Last week President Trump floated the idea that the US could purchase Greenland from Denmark, earning him a rebuke from that country’s Prime Minister. Ulrik Pram Gad writes that the spat between Denmark and Trump over Greenland shows that the president’s slow dismantling of the US-led liberal world order has now also become the problem of smaller nations – and the Arctic.