Greenland, an Arctic territory with a predominantly Inuit population, has become the subject of renewed international debate over sovereignty and self-determination. Amid claims that Greenland could be acquired by an external power, Volume XLIX staff editor Ariel Hanover argues that international law forecloses treating Greenland as a negotiable asset. This post examines how the right of indigenous self-determination under the UN Charter, human rights treaties, and evolving international norms constrains external claims to Greenland’s sovereignty, and why violating those protections would carry serious consequences for the rules-based international order.
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