Podcast
Free Association: What Greenland and Denmark can learn from other former colonies
In this podcast we talk about the experiences with Free Association in Marshall Island and the Cook Islands and what Denmark and Greenland can learn from that.
![Prime Minister from Cook Islands Mark Brown and Foreign Minister in New Zealand Nanaia Mahuta. Photo: Office of the PM, Cook Islands](/files/styles/landscape_01/public/media/image/Prime%20Minister%20from%20Cook%20Islands%20Mark%20Brown%20and%20Foreign%20Minister%20in%20New%20Zealand%20Nanaia%20Mahuta.%20Photo%20-%20Office%20of%20the%20PM%2C%20Cook%20Islands.jpg?h=170ba4b8&itok=XqW-4dS3)
Illustration © Photo: Office of the PM, Cook Islands
Prime Minister from Cook Islands Mark Brown and Foreign Minister in New Zealand Nanaia Mahuta.
Free Association is a UN recognized way of decolonizing and a model of independence that Greenland has been investigating since the early 1990ies. In Greenland’s draft constitution presented in April Free Association is discussed as one way of organizing a future sovereignty.
Today just five former colonies have a Free Association agreement. Cook Islands and the Marshall Islands are two of those five.
In this podcast we talk about their experience with Free Association, which pros, and cons such an association can entail, and what Greenland and Denmark can learn from that.
DIIS Experts
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Photo/illustration by Lynggaardhansenfoto.dk
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Photo/illustration by Jette Mariboe, DIIS
Free Association: What Greenland and Denmark can learn from other former colonies