Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributor Biographies
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction: Circumpolar Perspectives
- Part II European Security Interests in the Arctic
- 4 Arctic Security and Norway
- 5 Norway and the Arctic
- 6 Military Aspects of Russia's Arctic Policy
- 7 The Russian Arctic in the Twenty-First Century
- 8 The Rise of the Arctic on the Global Stage
- 9 The Arctic Challenge to Danish Foreign and Security Policy
- 10 Arctic Security
- 11 Territorial Discourses and Identity Politics
- Part III North American Security Interests in the Arctic
- Afterword
- Index
- References
10 - Arctic Security
A Greenlandic Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributor Biographies
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction: Circumpolar Perspectives
- Part II European Security Interests in the Arctic
- 4 Arctic Security and Norway
- 5 Norway and the Arctic
- 6 Military Aspects of Russia's Arctic Policy
- 7 The Russian Arctic in the Twenty-First Century
- 8 The Rise of the Arctic on the Global Stage
- 9 The Arctic Challenge to Danish Foreign and Security Policy
- 10 Arctic Security
- 11 Territorial Discourses and Identity Politics
- Part III North American Security Interests in the Arctic
- Afterword
- Index
- References
Summary
Constitutional framework
Since 1979, Greenland has had a system of local autonomy, known as home rule, which in June 2009 by a new act on Greenland Self-Government was updated to self-government. The system of self-government means that it is possible for the Greenland government to assume authority over almost all areas of public life in Greenland. According to the Act on Self-Government, Greenland's Parliament has full legislative power in areas in which responsibility has been taken over by Greenland.
According to the Danish constitution and the Act on Self-Government, however, some areas cannot be taken over and have to remain with the Danish government. Those areas are the following:
The Constitution
Foreign affairs
Defense and security policy
The Supreme Court
Currency and monetary policy
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- Arctic Security in an Age of Climate Change , pp. 166 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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