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DANISI I

FOREIGN POLICY

YEARBOOK

2017

EDITED BY KRISTIAN FISCHER AND HANS MOURITZEN

DIIS DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

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Contents

Preface 5

Chapter l:Articles 7

Abstracts in English and Danish 7

7’

The

International Situation and Danish foreign Policy in 2016. 11

Anders Sam uetsen, !vlinister for Foreign

Affairs

Denmark in a rapidly changing security environment• 23

Ctaus Hjort Frederiksen,

IVlinister ofDefence

Europe through a crystal ball. 31

Per Stig Møller

Nationalists, National Liberals and Cosmopolitans:

Danish foreign Policy Debates after Brexit and Trump 51

Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen

The

Greenland Card: Prospects for and Barriers

to Danish Arctic Diplomacy in Washington 75

Anders Henriksen andJon Rahbek-

C’lemmensen

Refugee policy as ‘negative nation branding’:

the case ofDenmark and the Nordics 99

Thomas Gammeltofi—Jiansen

Chaptet 2: Selected Documents

127

I 65

Chapter 3: Danish Foreign Policy in Figures

Chaptet 4: Opinion Poils

169

185

Chapter 5: Selected Bibliography

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Preface

-o

Danist

foreign

Poticy Yearbook addresses Danish forei

gn policy both region

ally and globally. Apart from the articles by Denmark’s

foreign and defence

ministers, this volume inciudes four academic articles,

whose authors repre

sent only themselves and their expertise (for details

of each author, see the

respective articies)

In his articie, dr. phil. Per Stig 1\1oller argues that Euro

pe is going down

wards in the current demographic cycie. Trade

routes run parallel with

demography, and in the future they will be moving

to the east and south of

Europe. Geostrategically, Europe is experiencing prob

lems with a revanchist

Russia, a highly volatile, possibly Islamist Middle

East, and an Africa from

which there will be significant growth in emigration

to Europe. Not to men

tion that the EU has probtems ofits own.

The election of Donald Trump and Brexit both

constitute radical breaks

for the ways in which Denmark’s action space is

perceived. According to

Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, the result is three confl

icting views of foreign

policy, held respectively by nationalists, national liber

als and cosmopotitans.

The national liberal perspective currently dorninate

s debates and policy, but

since

is finding

diflcult to formulate new polic

ies,

might have prob

lems in sustaining itselfin the long

The term ‘Greenfand card’ refers to Denmark’s

use of Greenland to

improve its foreign policy position in Washington.

Anders Henriksen and

Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen discuss the barriers that

inhibit Danish Arctic

diplomacy, inciuding too narrow a focus on contrib

uting to American-led

operations in the Middle East, mistrust between

Denmark and Greenfand,

and the taboo that surrounds the Greenland Card

itself.

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According to Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, the Danish government is

aiming to make asvium and protection conditions in Denmark as unattrac

rive as possible, thereby indirectly pushing asylum-seekers totvards other

countries. Such ‘negative nation branding’ may be an effective strategy in

reducing the numbers of asylum-seekers, but

is likely to create negative

externalities by, for instance, making the country vulnerable to similar policy

developments in neighbouring states, thus reducing the deterrent effect over

time.

These articies are abstracted in both English and Danish at the outset of

chapter one. After the articles follows a selection of omcial documents that

are considered to be characteristic of Danish foreign policy during 2016.

This is suppiemented by essential statisrics and by some of the most relevant

polis on the attirudes of the Danes to key foreign policy questions. Finally,

a bibliography provides a limited selection of scholarty books, articies and

chapters published

English in 2016 in the field covered by the yearbook.

Danish foreign Poticy

Yearbook has been edited by director Kristian Fischer

and dr. scient. pol. Hans Mouritzen.

The editors,

DuS, Copenhagen

June

2017