Greenland in Arctic Security, (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze

Year

2024

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-47290-439-6

Link

Last Update

02-Jan-2026

Keywords

Political Science ; International Relations ; security-studies-discipline ; Sociology

Description

s the Arctic is getting warmer, ice at sea and on land is melting. Great powers appear ready to conflict over resources appearing from under the ice. Science tells us about this climatic thaw already happening; much commentary and great power strategies want us to believe that a geopolitical freeze is inevitable. Either way, the Arctic region we have known since the end of the Cold War may not be recognizable for much longer. Within these tectonic changes, Greenland is home to the one polity most difficult to fit in traditional categories of international relations theory: the world’s largest island...