Do-gooders at the end of aid : Scandinavian humanitarianism in the twenty-first century / edited by Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Kristian Bjørkdahl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bengy-Puyvallée, Antoine de, editor.

Bjørkdahl, Kristian, editor.

Series:

Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian assistance, Scandinavian.

Scandinavia--Foreign relations.

Scandinavia.

Scandinavia--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Scandinavia is indeed characterized by the idea of doing good on the world stage, but then shows how this 'Scandinavian humanitarian brand' is an asset that policymakers and others can capitalize on to legitimize policy interventions and ideas, or to advance commercial, diplomatic, and security interests. Providing case studies from all Scandinavian countries, this book shows how the brand is made, reinforced, and used in a variety of policy contexts, from foreign aid and humanitarian assistance; to military operations, peace-building, and mediation; to migration policy, global health, and international cooperation. A key objective of the book is to explain why the Scandinavian humanitarian brand retains such apparent resilience in a time when Scandinavia's characteristic approach to world affairs seems challenged from many sides at once. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Introduction: On the resilience of the Scandinavian humanitarian brand

Fantasy, distinction, shame : the stickiness of the Nordic "good state" brand / Christopher S. Browning

The do-gooders dilemma : Scandinavian asylum and migration policies in the aftermath of 2015 / Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen

The Nobel savage : Norwegian do-goodery as tragedy / Kristian Bjørkdahl

An historical view on the Nordic "peace brand" : Norway and Sweden

partners and competitors in peace / Ada Nissen

Sweden's weapons exports paradox / Wayne Stephen Coetzee

Danish development cooperation : withering heights / Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Moe Fejerskov

How democracy promotion became a key aim of Sweden's development aid policy / Johan Karlsson Schaffer

From unconditional solidarity to conditional evaluability : competing notions of conditionality in Swedish development aid debates / Carl Marklund

The pragmatarian style : environmental change, global health, and Harlem Brundtland' Nordic internationalism / Simon Reid-Henry

Global public goods : a threat to Nordic humanitarianism? / Desmond McNeill.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jul 2021).

ISBN:

9781108807364

1108807364

9781108807852

1108807852

9781108772129

1108772129

OCLC:

1260314016

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access