Explaining the America First motivation for acquiring Greenland with former Trump administration official Alexander B. Gray
What geopolitical reasoning is driving Donald Trump’s incessant pursuit of Greenland? As Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the White House National Security Council during the fi...
18 Jan 33min
Seek support, create offramps and keep the Greenlanders close: Copenhagen’s strategy for containing the Greenland Crisis
Several weeks into the latest, most acute, phase of the ongoing Greenland Crisis, a Danish strategy for keeping the Kingdom intact in the face of the Trump administration’s unwelcome advances can be d...
15 Jan 38min
View from Brussels: the role of the EU and NATO in the Greenland Crisis
With transatlantic ties and the future of NATO at stake, security policy analyst Maria Martisiute from the European Policy Center in Brussels joins the podcast to discuss the role of the EU, NATO and ...
14 Jan 27min
Coercive diplomacy: Trump’s turning of the screw in US pursuit of Greenland
The appointment of Jeff Landry as special envoy reflects the Trump administration’s increasingly assertive pursuit of Greenland – what Prof. Steven Lamy of the University of Southern California sees a...
8 Jan 34min
Geopolitics in an Unfrozen Arctic: flashpoints, future scenarios and forces shaping the circumpolar North
What might the future of the Arctic look like, and in what ways has the optimistic Arctic future of 15-20 years ago taken a different path than expected at that time? Mia Bennett, associate professor ...
19 Nov 202539min
Arctic economic development: Business, investment and infrastructure in a complex geopolitical context
Perceptions of massive economic opportunity have propelled Arctic geopolitics for almost two decades, and the late Scott Minerd estimated the region required over $1 trillion in infrastrucutre investm...
10 Okt 202558min
Emerging trends in American engagement in the Arctic and Antarctic under Trump 2.0
Greenland has for good reason gotten most of the attention, but what other emerging trends can be seen in US interest and activities towards the Arctic and Antarctic during the current Trump administr...
10 Sep 202532min
America in the Arctic: the evolution of U.S Arctic engagement in an era of strategic competition and climate change
The United States, due in large part to Donald Trump’s renewed ambition to acquire Greenland, has this year dominated discussions on Arctic geopolitics. A timely new book, America in the Arctic: Forei...
17 Jul 20251h 5min
