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Ian Manners publishes new article on ‘Four ways to understand what’s going on with the US, Denmark and Greenland’ in The Conversation

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Published 15 January 2026
Ian Manners the Conversation Four ways to understand, illustration.

Feel overwhelmed but realise the need to understand what's going on? Academic analytical frameworks can help. European countries, and Denmark in particular, are scrambling to respond to threats from US officials over the future of Greenland. Having successfully taken out the leadership of Venezuela in a raid on January 3, an emboldened US government is talking about simply taking Greenland for itself.

But the latest developments demonstrate that Trump’s US can no longer be trusted as a long-term ally – to Greenland and Denmark, the EU and Europe. This is a crisis engulfing many countries and triggered by many drivers.

In order to understand this complex situation, we can use four different analytical approaches from academic thinking.  These can help us contextualise not just the Greenland case, but also the emerging multipolar world of “might makes right”.

According to The Conversation analytics, the article was read over 80,000 times in its first two days since publication, including syndication by The Hindu and news aggregators such as Google News and Yahoo News.

Article: https://theconversation.com/four-ways-to-understand-whats-going-on-with-the-us-denmark-and-greenland-272873

Ian Manners webpage: https://www.svet.lu.se/en/ian-manners

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