Abstract
With its focus on promoting Danish security, Danish interests and Danish values, Danish foreign and security policy is facing new conditions. The key question is how the Danish foreign and security policy activism is to operate in an increasingly multi-polar world order. In the article a neoclassical realist analytical framework is applied in order to analyze how ongoing developments in systemic and domestic conditions influence Danish foreign and security policy. The analysis shows how the room for maneuver for Danish value-based foreign and security policy activism decreases especially as a result of the declining US great power position and growing pressure on liberal values as universal values. Furthermore, the room for maneuver is decreasing due to stronger domestic focus on ensuring Danish economic and commercial interests, which are increasingly dependent on strong and stable relations with new economic and political power centers that do not share values with Denmark The changed policy profile in Danish foreign and security policy activism is most clearly reflected in Denmark’s handling of the new great power China, where the 1990s Danish megaphone diplomacy on value-issues is over.