title: Knowledge is power: Greenland, great powers, and lessons from the Second World War
abstract: In 2019, when President Donald J. Trump confirmed that he was considering an attempt to buy Greenland, European leaders looked on bemused and amused. There were many reasons why Trump’s real-estate proposition was flawed: not least because Greenland is a proud nation within the sovereign Kingdom of Denmark and is most decidedly “not for sale”. Yet it is understandable why the president found the idea alluring. Greenland is, and has long been, geographically important to the United States, sittin
journal: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)