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

• Main Authors: Kristensen, Kristian S., Rahbek-Clemmensen, Jon
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Ilulissat; Lent; greenlandic; Ilulissat Declaration; inuit
• Online Access: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/f661bf85-7bad-445d-8560-9c463359a8ef; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315162645-1; https://www.routledge.com/Greenland-and-the-International-Politics-of-a-Changing-Arctic-Postcolonial/Kristensen-Rahbek-Clemmensen/p/book/9781138061095

The standard story of the Ilulissat Declaration is essentially about state power. It was states that had the influence and the ambition to take the lead in instituting an order that benefitted themselves at the expense of other actors. It is often forgotten that the ministerial meeting was the resul...