Greenland in Arctic Security

“Greenland in Arctic Security makes a substantial empirical contribution to Arctic regional studies as an up-to-date and theoretically nuanced account of Greenland’s security politics. The focus on Greenland as a polity results in an important effort in IR theorizing to move beyond the prevalent European and North American cases upon which many IR concepts are built. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of politics and security in the Arctic and beyond.” - Elana Wilson Rowe, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

“The study of international relations has not come to terms with the scope and significance of climate change for the international system. This book represents a significant and serious effort to address this fundamental failing of the discipline. Marshaled together by the incomparable intellectual leadership of Jacobsen, WÆver, and Gad, the authors tackle the complexity of a rapidly changing political and geophysical world through the context of Greenland. The empirical and theoretical riches here, particularly the deployment of securitization theory, far transcend the focus on Greenland. As the discipline slowly comes around to addressing the social, political, and physical ramifications of climate change, this volume sets the standard.” - Jarrod Hayes, University of Massachusetts Lowell