{"id":309469,"date":"2025-12-08T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=309469"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:53:37","slug":"denmarks-ritual-of-militarisation-the-copenhagen-security-summit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/denmarks-ritual-of-militarisation-the-copenhagen-security-summit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s Ritual of Militarisation: The Copenhagen Security Summit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-309471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit-1024x546.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit-1024x546.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit-300x160.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit-768x409.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Security-Summit.webp 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A showcase of the Military\u2011Industrial\u2011Media\u2011Academic Complex MIMAC, not wanting to know what peace and coexistence could be.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>7 Dec 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0On 8 Dec 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes at Falkoner Centret in Frederiksberg. With 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, it is one of Denmark\u2019s largest gatherings on geopolitics and security. Organised by Danish Industry (DI), Ernst and Young, Poul Schmith (The Chamber Attorney), Danske Bank, and the business newspaper B\u00f8rsen, the summit features high\u2011profile figures such as Yulia Navalnaya, Mike Pompeo, and Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda moves through political framing, corporate responsibility, critical infrastructure resilience, and transatlantic dialogue. Its declared purpose is to explore \u201cthe role of business in a breaking world order,\u201d explicitly linking corporate actors to Europe\u2019s historically unique militarisation.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-anchor-post\">MIMAC in Action<\/h2>\n<p>The summit exemplifies the <strong>Military\u2011Industrial\u2011Media\u2011Academic Complex (MIMAC)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Military:<\/strong> NATO officials, Pompeo, and Danish policymakers anchor the summit in alliance politics and defence spending. (Pompeo is a former CIA director, on video for being proud of lying, cheating and stealing, the inventor of the lies about genocide in Xinjiang and a fundamentalist hater of Russia and China\u2026).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industrial:<\/strong> CEOs of Vestas, Terma, Danske Bank, Ernest &amp; Young, and others are cast as \u201cfrontline actors\u201d in security, normalising the militarisation of business.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media:<\/strong> <em>B\u00f8rsen<\/em> is not merely reporting but co-organising, ensuring promotional coverage rather than critical journalism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Academic\/Expert:<\/strong> Analysts and compliance specialists provide intellectual legitimacy, reframing militarisation as \u201cresilience\u201d and \u201crisk management.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal:<\/strong> Kammeradvokaten\u2019s presence ties the summit directly to the Danish state, embedding militarisation in law and governance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This fusion dramatises a \u201cbreaking world order\u201d where security is equated with militarisation, and business is enlisted into NATO\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-anchor-post\">What Is Absent<\/h2>\n<p>Such a large\u2011scale, elite\u2011driven event would never be arranged around other pressing European or global challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conflict resolution and peacebuilding:<\/strong> No panels on mediation, dialogue, or conflict analysis \u2013 in short, a forum of <strong>conflict\u2011 and peace\u2011illiterates<\/strong> who can only speak in military terms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Civilian roles in security:<\/strong> The EU\u2019s civilian conflict\u2011management instruments and the UN\u2019s peacekeeping and diplomacy are completely absent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global challenges:<\/strong> Climate change, environmental degradation, and global governance are ignored, despite being existential threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The summit\u2019s <em>anti\u2011Russia character <\/em>is explicit: Navalnaya symbolises resistance to Moscow, while Pompeo reinforces transatlantic confrontation. Yet no space is given to exploring diplomatic solutions, common security, trust-building, or peaceful coexistence.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-anchor-post\">Denmark\u2019s Role<\/h2>\n<p>This summit is also a reflection of how Denmark, under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, has spearheaded militarisation. By hosting and promoting such events, Denmark positions itself as a loyal NATO member, implicitly endorsing further arming of Ukraine and a policy that leaves little room for stability with Russia. The emphasis is on confrontation and deterrence, not dialogue or coexistence &#8211; let alone peace.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"header-anchor-post\">Condemnation and Call to Action<\/h2>\n<p>The Copenhagen Security Summit is therefore not a neutral dialogue but a <strong>ritual of militarisation<\/strong>, staged by elites with vested interests in weapons production, defence procurement, and the securitisation of business. It condemns itself by omission: refusing to engage with peace, conflict resolution, or the civilian role of international institutions.<\/p>\n<p>It is <strong>the ritual of the kakistocrats<\/strong> \u2013 an alliance of military, industry, media, and academia steering without a compass toward peace.<\/p>\n<p>What is needed is a <em>counter\u2011summit of peace and coexistence:<\/em> a gathering where conflict analysts, peace researchers, environmental voices, and civil society can articulate alternative visions. Europe must reclaim the agenda from MIMAC and insist that <em>security is not only about weapons, but about diplomacy, sustainability, intelligent\/educated conflict-management and long-term trust-building.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without such initiatives, Denmark risks being remembered not as a bridge\u2011builder, but as a spearhead of militarisation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JanOberg-scaled-e1596967349638.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JanOberg-scaled-e1596967349638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a> Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" >Transnational Foundation for Peace &amp; Future Research-TF<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" >F<\/a><em> in Sweden and a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>. CV: <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transnational.live\/\" ><em>https:\/\/transnational.live<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thetransnational.substack.com\/p\/denmarks-ritual-of-militarisation?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1655621&amp;post_id=180984986&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=b6biw&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original &#8211; thetransnational.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 Dec 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes with 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, being one of Denmark\u2019s largest gatherings on geopolitics and security. A showcase of the Military\u2011Industrial\u2011Media\u2011Academic Complex MIMAC, not wanting to know what peace and coexistence could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":309471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3767,3033,291,3768,2341,2831],"class_list":["post-309469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-copenhagen-security-summit","tag-denmark","tag-military","tag-military-industrial-media-academic-complex-mimac","tag-national-security","tag-scandinavia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309472,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309469\/revisions\/309472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}