Kristian Søby Kristensen is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. With a background in international relations, his academic interests are war and strategy, Arctic politics, Danish and European security and defence policy as well as issues of public safety and security.Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark, where he is affiliated to the Center for War Studies. He holds a PhD in international relations (LSE) and has been affiliated to Columbia University and CSIS. His research interests include European security, Arctic politics, Danish foreign and security policy, and civil–military relations.

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• Introduction: Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics 1. Setting the Scene in Nuuk: Introducing the Cast of Characters in Greenlandic Foreign Policy Narratives 2. Independence through International Affairs: How Foreign Relations Shaped Greenlandic Identity Before 1979 3. Greenlandic Sovereignty in Practice: Uranium, Independence, and Foreign Relations in Greenland between Three Logics of Security 4. The Arctic Turn: How did the High North become a Foreign and Security Policy Priority for Denmark? 5. Lightning Rod: US, Greenlandic and Danish Relations in the Shadow of Post-colonial Reputations 6. Chinese Investments in Greenland: Promises and Risks as Seen from Nuuk, Copenhagen and Beijing 7. The Politics of Economic Security: Denmark, Greenland and Chinese Mining Investment 8. The Divergent Scalar Strategies of the Greenlandic Government and the Inuit Circumpolar Council 9. Greenland and the Arctic Council: Subnational Regions in a Time of Arctic Westphalianisation 10. Materialising Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics Conclusion: The Opportunities and Challenges of Greenlandic Paradiplomacy

Kristian Søby Kristensen is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. With a background in international relations, his academic interests are war and strategy, Arctic politics, Danish and European security and defence policy as well as issues of public safety and security.Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark, where he is affiliated to the Center for War Studies. He holds a PhD in international relations (LSE) and has been affiliated to Columbia University and CSIS. His research interests include European security, Arctic politics, Danish foreign and security policy, and civil–military relations.

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• Introduction: Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics 1. Setting the Scene in Nuuk: Introducing the Cast of Characters in Greenlandic Foreign Policy Narratives 2. Independence through International Affairs: How Foreign Relations Shaped Greenlandic Identity Before 1979 3. Greenlandic Sovereignty in Practice: Uranium, Independence, and Foreign Relations in Greenland between Three Logics of Security 4. The Arctic Turn: How did the High North become a Foreign and Security Policy Priority for Denmark? 5. Lightning Rod: US, Greenlandic and Danish Relations in the Shadow of Post-colonial Reputations 6. Chinese Investments in Greenland: Promises and Risks as Seen from Nuuk, Copenhagen and Beijing 7. The Politics of Economic Security: Denmark, Greenland and Chinese Mining Investment 8. The Divergent Scalar Strategies of the Greenlandic Government and the Inuit Circumpolar Council 9. Greenland and the Arctic Council: Subnational Regions in a Time of Arctic Westphalianisation 10. Materialising Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics Conclusion: The Opportunities and Challenges of Greenlandic Paradiplomacy

Kristian Søby Kristensen is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. With a background in international relations, his academic interests are war and strategy, Arctic politics, Danish and European security and defence policy as well as issues of public safety and security.Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management at the University of Southern Denmark, where he is affiliated to the Center for War Studies. He holds a PhD in international relations (LSE) and has been affiliated to Columbia University and CSIS. His research interests include European security, Arctic politics, Danish foreign and security policy, and civil–military relations.

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• Introduction: Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic: Postcolonial Paradiplomacy between High and Low Politics 1. Setting the Scene in Nuuk: Introducing the Cast of Characters in Greenlandic Foreign Policy Narratives 2. Independence through International Affairs: How Foreign Relations Shaped Greenlandic Identity Before 1979 3. Greenlandic Sovereignty in Practice: Uranium, Independence, and Foreign Relations in Greenland between Three Logics of Security 4. The Arctic Turn: How did the High North become a Foreign and Security Policy Priority for Denmark? 5. Lightning Rod: US, Greenlandic and Danish Relations in the Shadow of Post-colonial Reputations 6. Chinese Investments in Greenland: Promises and Risks as Seen from Nuuk, Copenhagen and Beijing 7. The Politics of Economic Security: Denmark, Greenland and Chinese Mining Investment 8. The Divergent Scalar Strategies of the Greenlandic Government and the Inuit Circumpolar Council 9. Greenland and the Arctic Council: Subnational Regions in a Time of Arctic Westphalianisation 10. Materialising Greenland within a Critical Arctic Geopolitics Conclusion: The Opportunities and Challenges of Greenlandic Paradiplomacy