Release of Danish Foreign Policy Review 2024

Watch the recording of the seminar here

DIIS invites you to the launch of the 2024 edition of the Danish Foreign Policy Review. The Review covers key topics relevant to Danish foreign, security, and development policy. The launch is an occasion to reflect on the geopolitical realities and changing threats as they are currently unfolding. We have therefore invited three notable speakers to give some food for thought, before we celebrate the publication with a glass of bubbles.

In the Danish Foreign Policy Review 2024, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen, give their thoughts on Danish foreign policy. This is followed by four, peer-reviewed, scholarly articles written by experts in their fields:

Legal scholars from the University of Copenhagen, Marc Schack and Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, delve into the legal aspects of supporting Ukraine in its war against an invading Russia. Historian Juhana Aunesluoma from the University of Helsinki, examines the long road taken by Finland and Sweden to join NATO. DIIS Senior researchers, Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, look into the idea of pragmatic idealism in Danish development policy. And Henrik Larsen, from the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, questions the continued relevance of discussing foreign policy activism.

Programme

14.00-14.10     Welcome, Mikkel Runge Olesen
14.10-14.20     Geopolitics - the Danish version, Hans Mouritzen
14.20-14.30     Danish foreign policy and the EU, Marlene Wind
14.30-14.40     Perspectives on NATO and the US, Kristian Søby Kristensen
14.40-15.00     Q&A
15.00-15.30     Bubbles

The seminar was held and recorded on 20 June 2024, 14.00-15.00 in DIIS Auditorium.