In partnership with the Arctic Yearbook, Arctic in Context is pleased to be running a series of interviews with the authors of the peer-reviewed articles that appeared in the 2016 edition. The authors with whom we will speak are among the Arctic experts whose research influences policymakers, business leaders, and media coverage. We encourage you

In partnership with the Arctic Yearbook, Arctic in Context is pleased to be running a series of interviews with the authors of the peer-reviewed articles that appeared in the 2016 edition. The authors with whom we will speak are among the Arctic experts whose research influences policymakers, business leaders, and media coverage. We encourage you

By Erica Dingman In recent years, the confluence of Arctic warming and rising global energy demand has drawn the region further into the processes of globalization. In the last decade alone, human activity rose by 400 percent attributed to an increase in shipping, mining, and energy exploration, in addition to the comparatively benign activities of

World Policy On Air is a podcast from the pages and website of World Policy Journal. As the effects of climate change pose new challenges in the Arctic, melting ice and warmer temperatures also present economic opportunities. On the latest episode of World Policy On Air, Inuuteq Holm Olsen, the first Greenland representative at the Danish embassy

Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, is becoming increasingly active in expanding its global partnerships and developing its domestic economy. Erica Dingman, director of World Policy Institute’s Arctic in Context initiative, discussed the island’s long-term goals for its export and tourism industries and addressed the effects of climate change with Inuuteq Holm Olsen, Greenland’s first

By Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen The Arctic is the new black in Copenhagen. Over the past decade, the region has gone from being a peripheral issue and a career dead end for Danish diplomats, best left for a few die-hard Greenland nerds in the Office for Nordic, Greenlandic, and Faroese Affairs, to becoming a top priority on Denmark’s

In 2009, the Greenland Self-Government Act came into force, granting the nation greater autonomy from the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland is the world’s largest island and is rich with natural resources. Erica Dingman, senior fellow and director of Arctic in Context at World Policy Institute, caught up with Inuuteq Holm Olsen, the first Greenlandic representative at

By Uiloq Mulvad Jessen Greenland is the world’s biggest island with its 2,166,086 square kilometers, which is about the same size as Alaska and California together. In Greenland, there are approximately 56,500 inhabitants, compared to California and Alaska with about 39.5 million. The people in Greenland are spread throughout 17 towns and 58 settlements. The

By Kevin McGwin  “It comes from here,” Anne-Sofie Hardenberg says, pointing to the small of her back with one hand while waving a chef’s knife at a box-shaped roast on a cutting board. We decide that if it had come from a pig, it would probably be a loin, or perhaps a rump roast. Hardenberg