Episodes
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Paul Musgrave on Trump and Greenland in a Global and Historical Context
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
In the midst of an escalating diplomatic crisis between the United States and Denmark, international relations expert Prof. Paul Musgrave joins the Polar Geopolitics podcast to provide analysis, insight and an array of perspectives—American, global, historical—on Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland, an unfolding story that has sent shockwaves far beyond the Arctic.
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Hot Take on Trump's Greenland Gambit
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Reports of Donald Trump's interest in the U.S. buying Greenland from Denmark - without doubt the most unexpected and outrageous Arctic news story in recent memory - has attracted ridicule and rapidly morphed into a diplomatic crisis. Associate Professor Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, an expert on Denmark-Greenland-U.S. relations at the Royal Danish Defense College, joins Polar Geopolitics for an analysis of Trump's Greenland gambit and its wide-ranging ramifications on Arctic geopolitics.