Denmark and Greenland's Changing Sovereignty and Security Challenges in the Arctic

• Main Author: Rahbek-Clemmensen, Jon
• Other Authors: Hoogensen-Gjørv, Gunhild, Lanteigne, Marc, Sam-Aggrey, Horatio
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nuuk
• Online Access: https://pure.fak.dk/da/publications/denmark-and-greenlands-changing-sovereignty-and-security-challenges-in-the-arctic(b470d214-0d7a-4f41-a02f-583cfc42503f).html; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265797

Regional security dynamics are not felt uniformly throughout the Arctic. Greenland, a regional entity within the Kingdom of Denmark with extensive autonomy and a roadmap to independence, illustrates how local political forces and authority structures affect security dynamics. Whereas Cold War civili...