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Settlement in Greenland
The 1951 Denmark–US defense agreement established U.S. responsibility to assist in the defence of Greenland under NATO and created a durable legal framework for American basing and operations on the i...
The –U.S. Defense Agreement formally replaced the and converted near‑unrestricted American basing rights into a peacetime, ‑framed arrangement that specified defense areas and tied U.S. presence to al...
The 2004 Igaliku update formally amended the 1951 U.S.–Denmark Defense of Greenland agreement to bring Greenland’s Home Rule (later self‑government) institutions into the defence dialogue, add joint p...
The prospect of a successful U.S. seizure or outright annexation of Greenland under President Trump is legally and politically implausible but not impossible as a short-term coercive gambit: the admin...
The short answer is: no — not imminently. The Trump administration has publicly pushed for “immediate negotiations” and a “framework” to gain access or control over , but that push has run up against ...
created broad U.S. rights to establish and use “defense areas” . narrows that legal footprint by formally concentrating U.S. access to the Pituffik (Thule) base, embeds Greenlandic authorities into co...
ic political parties have uniformly rejected any effort to take control of the island and framed Washington’s moves as an affront to , even as they differ on tactics and the pace of ; party leaders an...
The Top Secret 1951 Technical Schedule to the U.S.-Denmark Agreement created the legal and geographic foundation that allowed the United States to plan, construct and operate a major military installa...