When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
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Spending by NATO members show they are prioritizing the strategic needs of the alliance as a whole rather than simply giving in to Donald Trump’s demands.
Donald Trump’s communication style, especially since the start of the US military campaign against Iran has revived several old myths that are engrained in the American psyche.
An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.
Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.
During the Cold War, projecting a readiness to act erratically may have served a purpose. But it has diminishing returns if used too often.
Foreign policy under Keir Starmer underlines the historical limits of idealism in the British approach to matters abroad.
Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland to protect the region.
The so-called ‘Golden Circle’ was to be an empire of slave-owning states stretching from the Deep South of the US, across Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
The UK and Europe need a new strategy.
In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.
The US remains unliked to take the semi-autonomous Danish territory by force. But there’s still plenty of room for a radical shift in the international order.
The US president promised Iranian protesters that ‘help is on its way’. It wasn’t.
As Trump threatens to take Greenland, the island’s Indigenous people say Denmark is making decisions about their future without them.
With an average temperature of -50°C, Antarctica’s first-ever 100% natural sanctuary protects endangered ice cores from global warming.
US wound down its presence in Greenland at the end of the cold war. Now it wants to beef it up again.
Mining and fossil fuel extraction both demand infrastructure that Greenland doesn’t have.
With no Antarctica-style treaty to protect Greenland, a US takeover could mean scientists lose access.
Competition between the US, Russia and China is shutting out regional statkeholders and ignoring the interests of Indigenous people.
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