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E-book Greenland in Arctic Security : (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze

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As 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 rela-tions theory: the world’s largest island formally belongs to Denmark, but the political autonomy of the Greenlandic nation as well as Ameri-can strategic engagement make Danish sovereignty ambiguous. More-over, Greenland is the most dynamic piece in the new Arctic jigsaw puzzle: insisting on a course toward statehood, hoping to be able to juggle relations to more metropoles without falling unilaterally under U.S. supremacy. Hence, for a nation of 56,000, Greenlandic security politics might prove surprisingly disruptive, if not to Arctic security as such, then for received ideas of the region and of how security unfolds. With this volume, we offer a fuller and more precise understanding of where Greenland wants to go, but also the limitations to this ambitious polity put by the new Arctic. Our contention is that even if Greenland presents us with a unique clash of scales and ambitions, the way Green-land twists Arctic security provides valuable lessons for how we should approach security in other places off the beaten path in terms of geo-physical territory, geopolitical position, colonial history, formal sover-eignty, and political identity.To better grasp the role of Greenland in Arctic security—both mov-ing targets—this volume reboots our understanding by presenting an analysis that identifies security dynamics from scratch rather than accepting established labels. Specifically, we look for processes of securitization, that is, how issues and identities in and related to Green-land are elevated to a privileged security agenda, and processes of desecuritization, that is, how these issues and identities may again be allowed back into the humdrum of normal politics or fade to uncontro-versial background. Working with the securitization theory (ST) of the so-called Copenhagen School proves fruitful for our understanding of Arctic and Greenlandic security.

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Judul Seri

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320.12 JAC g

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USA : University of Michigan Press., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

383 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780472904396

Klasifikasi

320.12

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Geopolitics

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