So You Want to Own Greenland?
Everyone who has tried to buy, claim or annex Greenland, set out dispassionately, including the Norwegian claim to the eastern coast that went to the Hague.
Buchanan sets out Greenland strategic history and the recurring foreign attempts to acquire it, including the Norwegian claim to the eastern coast in the 1930s that ended up at the Hague. Written by an Australian specialist in polar geopolitics, dispassionately enough that the current interest reads as one more entry in a long and mostly unsuccessful series.
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Tyler Cowen
A useful and dispassionate overview of the relevant history and issues. The author is from Australia. I had not known that Norway unilaterally claimed parts of eastern Greenland in the early 1930s, though gave it back to Denmark following a Hague adjudication and ruling.
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