Foreign Policy in Greenland: 20 Years of Development (Routledge Research in Polar Regions)

Foreign Policy in Greenland will shed light on what kind of competences Greenland has in IR and how Greenland undertakes foreign policy, while still being a self-governing territory underneath Danish jurisdiction.Even though Denmark has the ultimate power when it comes to foreign- and security policy, Greenland has received more autonomy in this field in recent years.Back in 1995 a permanent Danish/Greenlandic official group was established to discuss all foreign- and security matters that wererelated to Greenland.In 2003, Greenland and Denmark signed a joint declaration in Itilleq regarding the Greenlandic involvement in international affairs.Since then, the Government of Greenland has written a foreign policy report every year to outline the activities of Greenlandic international relations.This book will undertake a systematic analysis of the foreign policy papers since 2003 (or earlier) and onwards.What kind of activities have Greenland undertaken in international affairs?What are