Brian Moscioni

Brian Moscioni is a researcher at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Master of International Development from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Previously, Brian served in the US Navy as a fighter pilot and worked with Goldman Sachs.

In Icy Greenland, the Jungle Grows Back

In icy Greenland, great-power politics thaw old colonial instincts. As Washington talks force, Nuuk answers identity: not American, not Danish—Greenlandic. The Arctic’s “trillion-dollar ocean” risks reviving the law of the jungle.

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