Greenland's Arctic advantage: Articulations, acts and appearances of sovereignty games
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Greenland's Arctic advantage : Articulations, acts and appearances of sovereignty games. / Jacobsen, Marc.
I: Cooperation and Conflict, Bind 55, Nr. 2, 2020, s. 170-192.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Greenland's Arctic advantage
T2 - Articulations, acts and appearances of sovereignty games
AU - Jacobsen, Marc
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Greenland representatives successfully use the renewed international geostrategic interest in the Arctic to enhance Greenland’s foreign policy sovereignty. This is facilitated by Denmark’s dependence on Greenland’s geographic location and continuous membership of the Danish Realm for maintaining the status of an Arctic state, which recently has become one of the five most important security and foreign policy priorities. The dependency gives Greenland an ‘Arctic advantage’ in negotiations with Denmark, while turning circumpolar events into strategic arenas for sovereignty games in the aim to move the boundary of what Greenland may do internationally without Danish involvement. This article analyzes how these games unfold in the Arctic Council, at the high-level Ilulissat meetings and at circumpolar conferences where Greenland representatives articulate, act and appear more foreign policy sovereignty through outspoken discontent, tacit gestures and symbolic alterations. Altogether, this contributes to the expanding of Greenland’s foreign policy room for maneuver within the current legal frameworks, while enhancing Greenland’s international status and attracting external investments, important in their striving towards becoming a state with full formal Westphalian sovereignty.
AB - Greenland representatives successfully use the renewed international geostrategic interest in the Arctic to enhance Greenland’s foreign policy sovereignty. This is facilitated by Denmark’s dependence on Greenland’s geographic location and continuous membership of the Danish Realm for maintaining the status of an Arctic state, which recently has become one of the five most important security and foreign policy priorities. The dependency gives Greenland an ‘Arctic advantage’ in negotiations with Denmark, while turning circumpolar events into strategic arenas for sovereignty games in the aim to move the boundary of what Greenland may do internationally without Danish involvement. This article analyzes how these games unfold in the Arctic Council, at the high-level Ilulissat meetings and at circumpolar conferences where Greenland representatives articulate, act and appear more foreign policy sovereignty through outspoken discontent, tacit gestures and symbolic alterations. Altogether, this contributes to the expanding of Greenland’s foreign policy room for maneuver within the current legal frameworks, while enhancing Greenland’s international status and attracting external investments, important in their striving towards becoming a state with full formal Westphalian sovereignty.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Greenland
KW - Denmark
KW - Arctic
KW - International Relations
KW - sovereignty
KW - Sovereignty games
KW - diplomacy
KW - paradiplomacy
KW - Governance
KW - Sub-state actors
KW - Quasi states
KW - discourse analysis
KW - Ethnography
KW - Grønland
KW - Danmark
KW - Arktis
KW - Suverænitet
KW - Suverænitetsspil
KW - diplomati
KW - international politik
KW - governance
KW - paradiplomati
KW - diskursanalyse
KW - etnografi
U2 - 10.1177/0010836719882476
DO - 10.1177/0010836719882476
M3 - Journal article
VL - 55
SP - 170
EP - 192
JO - Cooperation and Conflict
JF - Cooperation and Conflict
SN - 0010-8367
IS - 2
ER -
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