When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
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Trump has approached governing through the same framework as his former business portfolio, where he casts the US as a flagship holding whose value he was elected to increase.
A seismic shift in American geopolitics explains the breakdown in U.S.-Canada trade relations. Understanding U.S. policy is critical as Canada faces stark choices.
Tags on these deep-diving whales are providing vital data from places research ships struggle to reach.
The US president unleashed grievances against Europe, reopened his bid to claim Greenland and referred to the Iranian leadership as ‘scum’ in wild NATO performance.
It’s the new reality in an Arctic where the climate is changing fast.
The street art giving Greenland’s villages a sense of hope.
Greenland has long been attractive to filmmakers. But now Greenlanders are shaping that process, even as visibility also becomes an economic strategy.
Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.
Green finance hinges on causing a minimal environmental disruption but tension in Greenland is building.
European publics and more government leaders are questioning the value of the alliance with the United States under Trump. But a different path remains elusive.
Donald Trump’s claim rests on a selective reading of wartime history.
Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.
Donald Trump seems intent on destroying many of the tenets of traditional US foreign policy.
The claim that national security can justify territorial acquisition marks a sharp break from the principles the US championed after World War II.
During the Cold War, projecting a readiness to act erratically may have served a purpose. But it has diminishing returns if used too often.
Greenland is central to US Space Force strategies for orbital dominance. Laws and treaties designed to maintain the peace in space are looking increasingly outdated.
Its ice sheet could theoretically melt and raise the sea by 7 metres.
Listen to Paul Bierman, an expert on Greenland’s ice, talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of the island’s ice sheet.
Delegates at the World Economic Forum at Davos have been confronted with starkly opposing visions of the future of world affairs.
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Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Professor of Glaciology, Fulbright Scholar, University of Tromsø
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney