Diplomacy and International Relations

This episode takes a look at the new EU Artic strategy and see it in relation to Greenland (and Denmark's) latest pushback to Washington. It is geopolitics in the high north with cables and shipping lanes.

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This episode is about Danish-Nepali relations, and also about why a small state reassonably can maintain an embassy in a country like Denmark.

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In this episode we take a closer look at the relationship between the Philippines and Denmark.

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Listen to this episode about the relationship between Denmark and Pakistan. From the pakistani diaspora in Denmark to windmills and energy.

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The current race and election of the new UN Secretary.-General is happening in a vacuum. Few people outside IR circles even know that it is going on, that the world is about to get a new top-diplomat.

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Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti has explicitly sanctified the campaign against the Houthis as an "act of devotion," days after Riyadh, Islamabad and Ankara mobilized under their new Mecca/Makkah mutual-defense pact. This is a genuinely under-covered angle: a modern, technocratic Gulf state reaching for classical religious legitimation language exactly when it needs Pakistani and Turkish publics — not just their governments — to accept the costs of a wider war. 

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Danish officials are calling this a diplomatic success, not a retreat and the signed text backs them up more than the "permanent US control" headlines suggested: no annexation, sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination explicitly preserved, environmental and traditional-livelihood protections written in (inherited from the 2004 Igaliku Agreement, now strengthened), and for the first time Washington has put its name to a formal, if NATO-gated, path to Greenlandic independence. The episode argues Denmark got the substance of what Trump was threatening to take by force, without the coercion, and asks what that says about the real balance of leverage between a small, alliance-embedded state and an erratic superpower.

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A new Vatican document, "A Journey of Hope," marks 60 years of Catholic-Jewish dialogue since Nostra Aetate — and admits, in careful diplomatic language, that the war in Gaza has strained that relationship more than anything since 1965. Meanwhile Gaza's only Catholic parish just reopened its school for 1,000 children with no desks.

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Religion is being used as a tool in geopolitics, and have since 9/11 25 years ago.

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Trump has doubled down on acquiring Greenland, NATO's Rutte has conceded he "has a point" on Arctic security, and a Greenlandic self-government report on independence alternatives is due by year's end.

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