Handbook of Nordic cooperation / edited by Nina Græger (Professor of International Relations and Director, Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway), Ruth Hemstad (Associate Research Professor of History, National Library of Norway and Researcher, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Norway), Peter Nedergaard (Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and Peter Stadius (Professor of Nordic Studies and Research Director, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Græger, Nina, editor.

Hemstad, Ruth S., editor.

Nedergaard, Peter, editor.

Stadius, Peter, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This illuminating Handbook explores transnational Nordic cooperation from a broad historical and political perspective. It examines the entangled and variegated history of Nordic collaboration from early civil society initiatives to comprehensive official cooperation, as well as responses to recent challenges such as defence and foreign policy. Leading experts discuss the vast scope and variety of Nordic cooperation forms and forums operating in areas including labour market policy, the welfare state, Sami regional developments, the environment and gender equality policies. Chapters shed light on public institutions and authorities such as the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers, reflecting on their vision for making the region the most sustainable and integrated in the world by 2030. The Handbook further investigates Nordic collaboration within the UN, EU, NATO, the Baltics and the Arctic, ultimately demonstrating that the success of the Nordic model of society is the result of long-term transnational cooperation. Students and scholars of European politics and policy, international relations, Nordic and Scandinavian studies and transnationalism will greatly benefit from this astute Handbook. Thorough and detailed, it is also an essential resource for policymakers, civil servants and politicians working in the Nordic region"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Part I: Early ideas and practices of nordic cooperation

1. Pragmatic scandinavianism: Cultural, scholarly and practical cooperation

2. Political scandinavianism in the nineteenth century

3. Nordic cooperation in the interwar period and the norden associations

4. Nordic cooperation during the second world war

5. History and theory of nordic economic cooperation, 1845-1970

6. The nordic consumer co-operative movement

Part II: Organising nordic official cooperation

7. The nordic passport union and the nordic council

8. The impact of the nordic council of ministers: Cases of policy learning in the nordic council of ministers

9. The civil servants' network in the nordic council of ministers: The case of the work environment committee

10. Nordic welfare states and nordic cooperation

11. Labour scandinavianism and cooperation of nordic labour organisations

12. Urban cooperation in the nordic countries

13. Nordic television cooperation: Nordvision and nordsat

14. Nordic financial cooperation: The nordic investment bank

Part III: Nordic policy cooperation

15. Nordic legal cooperation

16. Nordic educational cooperation

17. The organisation and articulation of nordic peacefulness

18. Entangled histories of the sámi and the nordic nations: Colonial legacies of the sámi national narrative

19. The common nordic labour market

20. Nordic environmental and climate policies and cooperation

21. Gender knowledge in nordic cooperation on gender equality

Part IV: Nordic cooperation and the outside world

22. Nordic cooperation in the league of nations and the United Nations

23. The nordic region and the European Union

24. Nordic defence cooperation

25. The nordic region and nato: Security relations in change

26. The rise and decline of joint nordic aid, 1960-1989

27. The nordic region in the arctic

28. From cold war to cohesion: Nordic-baltic cooperation in the post-cold war era

Part V: Epilogue

29. Nordic cooperation: Normative obligation, impotent community and valid political argument.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-537280-0

OCLC:

1536531790