Thorsten Borring Olesen

Thorsten is a professor at the Department of History at School for Culture and Society, Aarhus University. Areas of research include Danish politics and Danish security and foreign policy after 1945, European cooperation and integration, Nordic cooperation, and Danish and Nordic development aid policy. For more information about Thorsten, click here.

Contributions to nordics.info

11 December 2023 - Birgitte Beck Prinsted

Listen to two podcasts in Danish on the changing political and cultural landscape since the invasion of Ukraine, both in Russia, Europe and Norden.

29 June 2020 - Astrid Elkjær Sørensen

Listen to a potted history of the Danish immigration policy, 1970-1992 in either English or Danish! This podcast is part of a series where existing…

Guest workers striking against forced redundancies in front of DA

07 November 2019 - Astrid Elkjær Sørensen

In 1973, the Social Democrat government introduced an immediate stop to labour immigration because of growing unemployment. Immigration was, however,…

Map showing where Greenland is located on the map.

10 September 2019 - Thorsten Borring Olesen

In the summer of 2019, the Trump Administration voiced an interest in buying Greenland from Denmark. The historical background for this stretches at…

Thorsten Borring Olesen

Contributions to nordics.info

NNL Pod 8+9: Culture and Security after the Invasion of Ukraine

Podcast: Danish immigration policy, 1970-1992

Danish immigration policy, 1970-1992

Buying Greenland? Trump, Truman and the 'Pearl of the Mediterranean'