{"id":20244,"date":"2019-08-23T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=20244"},"modified":"2019-08-27T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:30:36","slug":"the-trump-greenland-story-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/the-trump-greenland-story-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cTrump-Greenland story\u201d: only the tip of the iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Open lecture on Wednesday 28 August, 12:00-13:00 at the Nordic House. Hosted by the <em>Center for Arctic Studies<\/em> at the University of Iceland and <em>the Nordic Region in Focus<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><iframe id=\"ls_embed_1566905384\" data-src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/14889744\/events\/8797381\/player?width=640&amp;height=360&amp;enableInfoAndActivity=true&amp;defaultDrawer=&amp;autoPlay=true&amp;mute=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> <\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-embed_id=\"ls_embed_1566905384\" src=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/assets\/plugins\/referrer_tracking.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cTrump-Greenland story\u201d: only the tip of the iceberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What does the renewed interest from the U.S. for Greenland mean for Iceland, the Danish-Greenlandic relationship and the Arctic, particularly from a security perspective? For years, Greenland, too critical for the security of the United States to become an issue, has been at the epicenter of a rising but muffled competition between the U.S. and China in the Arctic. Suddenly, the U.S. decided to clearly show the flag, among other things announcing its intention to reestablish a permanent diplomatic presence in Greenland \u201cas soon as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Sigur\u00f0ur \u00d3lafsson, Secretary General of the West Nordic Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be live streaming from the lecture that will be in English and open to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Damien Degeorges<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is the director of Degeorges Consulting ehf., a communication and strategy consultancy in Reykjav\u00edk. A fluent Danish speaker, he has been following Greenlandic affairs for more than 15 years and holds a PhD in political science after a thesis on \u00ab The Role of Greenland in the Arctic \u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open lecture on Wednesday 28 August, 12:00-13:00 at the Nordic House. Hosted by the Center for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland and the Nordic Region in Focus The \u201cTrump-Greenland story\u201d: only the tip of the iceberg What does the renewed interest from the U.S. for Greenland mean for Iceland, the Danish-Greenlandic relationship and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20248,"template":"","event-categories":[7,92,99],"class_list":["post-20244","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","event-categories-livestream-en","event-categories-the-nordic-region-in-focus","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/20244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=20244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}