By Mikael Hertig, M. of Pol. Sci. August 16 2019. mh@aquut.com Danes and Greenlanders: “This is absurd” Donald Trump is visiting Denmark primo September. Several US papers refers – among others Wall Street Journal – that Trump is going to negotiate how Unites States can buy Greenland. In 1920, USA bought The Virgin Islands of…
Category: Colonialism
The blessing time of colonies
By eMikael Hertig 20 In Denmark, the blessing time of colonies1 Marine Duc and Mikael Hertig Abstract Despite the implementation since the end of the 1970s of a gradual transfer of power from the government of Denmark to Naalakkersuisut – Government of Greenland -, this is not just a peaceful development in relations between the small Nordic country and its…
Colony definitions – Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
Nuuk, New Harbour seen from Qinngorput, 2017 Mikael Hertig photo (c) ‘ The article by Marine DUC and me has been published (in Norwegian) in Aftenposten Innsikt. Here, we discuss the tension of political meaning of the tension between Denmark and Greenland, Is Denmark still some sort of colony and if not what else? However, it has been claimed Greenland…