As data outruns diplomacy, power accelerates

In the 20th century, Greenland stopped being a question.

Greenland at an inflection point: a climate sentinel, security asset, resource frontier, and home to a newly institutionalized political voice. (Visit Greenland/Unsplash)

Part 4 of a five-part series on science diplomacy and sovereignty in the Arctic.

For most of the post–Cold War era, Greenland was strategically important but politically settled. The Uni…