Greenland’s Foreign Policy: Directions and Milestones on the Path toward Greater Autonomy

E. A. Veprev

doi:10.24833/2071-8160-2026-1-106-185-201

Greenland’s Foreign Policy: Directions and Milestones on the Path toward Greater Autonomy

E. A. Veprev

https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2026-1-106-185-201

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Abstract

Book review: Ackrén M. 2025. Foreign Policy in Greenland: 20 Years of Development. London: Routledge. 112 p. ISBN: 9781003387657. DOI: 10.4324/9781003387657

Keywords

Greenland's foreign policy, paradiplomacy, shelter theory, the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement, the Itilleq Declaration, the Igaliku Agreement, the Arctic Council

About the Author

E. A. Veprev

Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin
Russian Federation

Egor A. Veprev – Junior Researcher, Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch; Postgraduate Student of the 3rd year

620066, Sofʹi Kovalevskoĭ 16, Ekaterinburg, Russia; 620000, Lenina 51, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

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Veprev E.A. Greenland’s Foreign Policy: Directions and Milestones on the Path toward Greater Autonomy. MGIMO Review of International Relations. 2026;19(1):185-201. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2026-1-106-185-201

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