Dr Gabriella Gricius

Dr. Gabriella Gricius is a Senior Research Associate at the Arctic Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz and a Fellow and the Media Coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN). She received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University’s Political Science Department, where her dissertation explored the prevalence of low-tension discourse in Greenland, Svalbard, the Northern Sea Route, and the Northwest Passage. Her research interests broadly cover international relations, Arctic and Nordic security, the potential for desecuritization during great power competition, and the role of experts in security decision-making processes.

Outside of academia, she also works with the European Leadership Network (ELN) on research on hybrid threats and is a Fellow with the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN). She was recently a participant with the Manfred Wörner Seminar, the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative, a Summer Associate with the RAND Corporation, and has consulted with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She continues to act as an Adjunct Lecturer at Colorado State University.

Previously she was a Guest Researcher at both the University of Copenhagen and the Fridtjof Nansen Insitute, a Fellow with Bridging the Gap, a Junior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Netherlands Office, and worked with the International Criminal Court and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. She received her BA from Boston University and MA from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Click the ‘Listen’ button below to hear Dominic Bowen and Dr Gabriella Gricius discuss the rapidly unfolding Arctic crisis that has thrust Greenland into the spotlight with Trump repeatedly and aggressively asserting U.S. ambitions to take control of the island on national security grounds and fuelling rising tensions among the transatlantic alliance.