Extra - Danish Election and How Danish Prime Ministers have navigated internationally

Extra - Danish Election and How Danish Prime Ministers have navigated internationally

This extra episode of Diplomacy and International Relations explores the results of the recent general election and Denmark’s evolution into a "super‑Atlanticist" state, moving from Cold War restraint to a more militarized, activist foreign policy aimed at securing top‑tier status with the United States. We connect increased defense spending, the end of the EU defense opt‑out, and deeper European integration to Copenhagen’s search for security in a more volatile world.


At home, we look at how Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen fuses left‑wing welfare politics with hardline immigration policies, and how the 2026 elections, inflation, healthcare, and tensions over Greenland are reshaping Denmark’s political landscape. Together, these dynamics show a small state trying to balance humanitarian values with the pragmatic demands of alliance loyalty and national defense.


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The Pope in Moscow's Shadow - Can Religious Diplomacy Do What States Can't?

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Greenland Is Not a Real Estate Deal

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28 Aug 20min

Sacred Ground, Secular War: Religion as the Unspoken Variable in the Iran-Israel-Gulf Conflict

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Listen in as we go another route than most coverage of the Hormuz crisis and the Turkey-Pakistan-Saudi defence pact treats it as pure realpolitik. But Shia-Sunni dynamics, Iran's revolutionary-Islamic...

25 Aug 45min

Denmark's Quiet Rearmament: Pragmatic Idealism or the End of an Illusion?

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Listen to this episode where I look at how Denmark is hitting NATO's 2% target three years early, has troops in Latvia, and is funnelling billions into Ukraine and all of it under a foreign policy str...

23 Aug 47min

Greenland and the collision of national myths

Greenland and the collision of national myths

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