Peter Aagaard
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Peter Aagaard
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Associate professor, Roskilde University, political scientist, author, dad, political communication, organisation, leadership & public administration

Education 25%
Business 22%

📣New chapter out now, written with Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, on polycrisis, new beginnings and cosmopolitanism (think we need a little bit of that these days) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Phoenix Arises From the Ashes: Polycrisis and New Beginnings in Business Ethics and Stakeholder Management
This chapter discusses the concept of polycrisis, which oscillates between global disaster and cosmopolitan hope, and offers a critical lens for examining contemporary challenges in business ethics an...
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This sounds very much like what the 🇺🇸-🇪🇺 relations have experienced the last couple of days. Forget 4d chess of ‘a very stable genius,’. When will the Maga-bubble burst and genuin talk of 25th amendment start? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life...
What Happens When Narcissists Age
They may not value social interaction as their peers do.
www.psychologytoday.com

Will Greenland be Trump’s Waterloo? Making it a clear EU/ transatlantic issue he might have overplayed his hand www.bbc.com/news/article...
Faisal Islam: Trump's Greenland threats to allies are without parallel
The US president's latest threats will baffle the leaders of allied nations, writes the BBC's economics editor.
www.bbc.com

Will Greenland be Trump’s price for security guarantees in Ukraine? Maybe highly speculative, but nothing is too outrageous for the current president. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/w...
Trump’s Venezuela raid plunges Greenland and the Western military alliance into uncertainty | CNN
Amid increasing concerns that Greenland, a vast Arctic territory ruled by Denmark, is still being coveted by the Trump administration, the Danish prime minister has delivered a stark warning to the Wh...
edition.cnn.com

The only regime change in 🇻🇪 (according to Trump) will be replacement of representatives from China, Iran, and Russia with US oil industry. Rest will be ‘business as usual’. That is NOT freedom for the people of 🇻🇪

Jeg har begået denne ‘jule’-kronik i Politiken. Nok mere et resultat af forfatterens hånd end forskerens😉 Glædelig jul til alle 🎄🎅🏻
I 1893 blev der begået et hemmeligt folkemord ... på de danske nisser
Den danske stat nægter i dag fortsat ethvert kendskab til affæren og afviser vedvarende, troværdige udsagn om de faktiske og grusomme begivenheder, der fandt sted juledag i 1893: Udrensningen af de da...
https://politiken.dk/debat/kroniken/art10636353/I-1893-blev-der-begået-et-hemmeligt-folkemord-...-på-de-danske-nisser#:~:text=I%201893%20blev%20der%20begået%20et%20hemmeligt%20folkemord&text=på%20de%20danske%20nisser

🇺🇸 is now doing ‘geopolitical gasligthing’. Case number 1: the national security strategy www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov

Trump wants to export the MAGA revolution to Europe. This is NOT in the interest of Europe or of the Europeans Trump claims he wants to help. See new videopost from @anderspucknielsen.dk youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4
New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
youtu.be

Putins talking points copy-pasted. Trump is still shaping an excuse to abandon 🇺🇦, framing 🇪🇺 as a foe and 🇷🇺 as a friend. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Trump thrashes European leaders in wide-ranging interview: ‘I think they’re weak’
In an interview with POLITICO, the president offered no reassurance to America's allies about Russia and vowed to reshape their politics.
www.politico.com

Happy and honoured to see that our special issue article on crisis and expertise is among the top ten cited in Policy & Politics, this year🙂 Free access to the article this month!
Our 2025 🎉 Top 10 Most Cited Articles 🎉 are now free to access until the end of September! You can find them all below 👇

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Our 2025 🎉 Top 10 Most Cited Articles 🎉 are now free to access until the end of September! You can find them all below 👇

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Many thanks to all of our authors:

Enten misinformerer statsministeren eller også har hun ikke styr på regeringens egen universitetspolitik #dkpol politiken.dk/del/fY1b78AE...
Mette Frederiksen i hårdt angreb på RUC: »Prøv at sige sætningen. Folk tror jo, det er løgn«
Muslimer i Danmark svigter deres ansvar, når de ikke gør mere for at forhindre negativ social kontrol og voldelige unge, mener Mette Frederiksen, der også langer ud efter RUC.
politiken.dk

🇺🇸 hybrid warfare in Greenland. Some in the 🇩🇰 political establishment even speculate that decline of 🇩🇰 brands like Ørsted and Novo Nordisk in US markets is linked to the 🇺🇸strategy. Maybe too speculative, but worth following in the comming weeks euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
US spies stoked separatism in Greenland, Denmark says
Denmark has accused US agents of trying to foment separatism in Greenland, reigniting fears over the territory's future.
euobserver.com

You cannot gain credit for making ‘negotiations’ a political reality show, while people are dying in 🇺🇦 It is just cynical and sheer hypocrisy edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
Analysis: Why Trump deserves credit for his Ukraine push — and why it may all fall apart | CNN Politics
It was the best day Ukraine has had in a very long time. But it’s still hard to see how the war unleashed by Russia’s brutal invasion ends any time soon.
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‘Art of the f*ck-up’… historic humiliation for a US president. But yes, it could had gone a lot worse for 🇺🇦 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump and Putin Alaska summit: Five takeaways from the meeting
With no ceasefire and an invitation to Moscow, the US and Russia's meeting yields more questions than answers.
www.bbc.com

We will see how it ends on Friday. However, I think a true realist (with respect for international principles as well of US interests) would put real pressure on Russia.

For a brief moment (since the NATO summit) some liberals dreamed that some of ‘the old ways’ was still working. Trump even sounded like a critic of Putin. But it was just sound, just an illusion…
edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/e...
Trump-Putin summit in Alaska resembles a slow defeat for Ukraine | CNN
Location matters, former real estate mogul US President Donald Trump said. Moments later he announced Alaska, a place sold by Russia to the United States 158 years ago for $7.2 million, would be where...
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Will next step be CRISPR as an instrument of social policy?

Eugenics is back, in a privatized Big tech-supported version m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjBg...
New IVF tech lets parents choose traits, and discard the rest
YouTube video by CNN
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Godt at se at @magtudredningen2.bsky.social sætter mere fokus på policyprofessionelle. Her er et link til dengang begrebet blev introduceret på dansk i et temanummer i Politica i 2020 politica.dk/fileadmin/po...
politica.dk

We now know there is no ‘deep state’, instead there are deeply dumb politicians