On 24 April 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order (“Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources”) directing the Administrator of the US National Oceanic and…

The last weeks have seen a gradual increase of pressure on the Ukrainian leadership to succumb to Russia’s imperialist demands. In particular, the United States of America under…

Thucydides’ famous Melian Dialogue came to mind when reading about President Trump’s demand that Ukraine surrender control over its natural resources and accept Russian control of additional territories.

In a previous post, written before Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, I wrote about the various measures – particularly those targeting America’s…

In recent weeks, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has unequivocally expressed his desire to purchase Greenland, which holds a constitutional status within the Danish ‘Unity of the Realm’…

Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan asked in the pages of Foreign Affairs whether our troubled world order would be able to survive the disruptive Donald Trump.

The United States and Denmark have been embroiled in political tensions over President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland, possibly even by force. The Prime…

In July 2024, the US Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 ruling, that former President Donald Trump enjoys absolute immunity for acts he committed within his constitutional…

Next week, Donald Trump will become President of the United States. Again. Even before his assumption of the presidency, he seems to have started setting his country’s foreign…

Reports of a possible Russia-Ukraine peace agreement continue to bubble and churn. The latest is an apparent Russian rejection of a peace plan floated by…