Report Summary: Deployment and Distress: Legal issues confronting Danish navy vessels in connection with search and rescue of migrant boats in the Mediterranean

  Deployment and Distress: Legal issues confronting Danish navy vessels in connection with search and rescue of migrant boats in the Mediterranean. By Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Andrea Belén Jimenéz Laurence, Centre for Military Studies, November 2021, 98 Pages. Link to full report.   The execution of maritime search and rescue Read more…

Report summary: China and the Battle of Coalitions: The ‘circle of friends’ versus the Indo-Pacific strategy

  China and the Battle of Coalitions: The ‘circle of friends’ versus the Indo-Pacific strategy. By Alice Ekman, from European Union Institute for Security Studies, April 2022, 58 Pages, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_174_0.pdf   Since  the advent of Xi Jinping as the President of the People’s Republic of China in March 2013, China Read more…

Report summary: African Spaces: The new geopolitical frontlines

  African Spaces: The new geopolitical frontlines. Edited by Giovanni Faleg. With contributions from Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Fergus Kell, Katariina Mustasilta, Luigi Narbone, Carlo Palleschi, Patryk Pawlak, Luca Ranieri, Jean Ramier, Norman Sempija, Alex Vines, Sean Woolfrey, March 2022, 74 Pages, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_173_0.pdf   Africa’s geopolitical importance continues to rise rapidly Read more…

Report Summary: A Step in the Decolonization Process: Free Association

  A Step in the Decolonization Process: Free Association, by Gudmundur Afredsson, Danish Institute for International Studies, 24 May 2023, 3 pages. Digital acces: https://pure.diis.dk/ws/files/20619341/GA_Working_Paper.pdf   This seminar paper examines the prospect of free association for Greenland in its relationship to Denmark as a next step in the decolonisation process, Read more…

Studierejse til Georgien

Hvordan er Georgien påvirket af krigen i Ukraine? 16. september – 23. september   Det Udenrigspolitiske Selskab foretog en studietur til Georgien i 2013, efter at landet havde været igennem en krig med Rusland i 2008. Nu er Georgien endnu engang aktuel med krigen i Ukraine, idet Georgiens geografiske placering Read more…

Det unge Nigeria

INTERVIEW: Nigeria har netop valgt en ny præsident - den 70-årige Bola Tinubu fra regeringspartiet APC. Hvordan ser de unge vælgere på deres lands fremtid og den nye præsident? Ida Sparre-Ulrich har talt med Adeyinka Igbinoba fra Lagos og Umar Gremka fra Maiduguri. Af Ida Sparre-Ulrich   Nigeria har fået Read more…