Eskalationsstigen:De retlige rammer for dansk suverænitetshåndhævelse
Journal: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)
Year: 2025

A renewed focus on traditional national security matters, such as territorial defence, has begun to dominate Danish defence- and security policy in recent years – and a key catalyst for this shift has been an increasingly aggressive stance from Russia. Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, and especially its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, heightened NATO’s collective security consciousness. Added to this is a growing recognition that Denmark’s most important security ally