Elizabeth Buchanan

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is an international affairs analyst with expertise in polar geopolitics. She is a former Australian Department of Defence official, where she was Head of Navy Research and the inaugural 1st Sea Lord Five Eyes Fellow. Elizabeth is senior fellow at Washington’s Center for the National Interest, a visiting fellow with the French Ministry of Armed Forces and senior fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute where she leads the Polar Security Program. X: @BuchananLiz

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Elizabeth Buchanan

A buyer’s guide to Greenland

From our UK edition

I recently wrote a book countenancing the idea that the United States could buy Greenland, and I have received some very interesting responses. Some are perplexed at the utility of an Australian assessment of Greenland geostrategy (I’m from Canberra); others have admonished me personally for ‘willing into reality’ US ownership of Greenland. All I did was offer a buyer’s guide to an alluring piece of real estate – background that anyone laying claim to this land should know. Lesson 1: America and Denmark have history  Greenland has tantalised Washington since at least 1867.  These guys have serious history.