More than an island
India, Jan. 24 -- After a backlash from Western allies, US President Donald Trump scaled back his rhetoric on America taking over Greenland. The island-territory has always been a theatre of geopolitical competition, which is now getting headted due to the energy and trade realities the world faces.
Australia-based researcher Elizabeth Buchanan's So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump offers the reader important perspective on why the island is a key piece in the ongoing great power race. From the earliest expeditions to the island by Norse sailors to the US using the island as a military base during the Cold War and the island's relationship with the Kingdom of Denmark, of which it remains a territory but with significant autonomy, the book offers the reader a detailed sketch of the past, present and future of the island. It also delves into the fallout on the immediate neighbourhood, specifically Canada, if Trump's plans come to fruition....
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