Arctic News and Analysis
Svalbard continues to see itself in the middle of rapidly changing geopolitics throughout the Arctic. Norway has been seeking to strengthen its sovereignty in the archipelago, but pushback in the form of Russian and Chinese alternative narratives is becoming more difficult to ignore.
Canada's election season has been rocked both by unprecedented economic and political pressures from the new Trump administration, and renewed debates over the direction of Arctic Canadian security policy, including in the Arctic.
Even before the second Trump administration began, the president-elect began to yet again raise the dead-end prospect of annexing Greenland, giving no coherent reasons and alienating the Danish Kingdom. This controversy overshadowed the March elections in Greenland, leading to a new coalition government and a largely-unified stance against American neo-imperialism.
As the 2025 Arctic Frontiers conference concluded, the question of how to define and address Arctic security threats dominated the dialogues, including in the wake of the hyper-nationalist and anti-environmentalist foreign policy promised by the incoming Trump administration.
The University of Iceland held a timely seminar this week about how Greenland has suddenly been pushed back into debates about regional governance, security, and Indigenous rights.
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