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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.
Contents
Contents
Preface xi
PART I EARLY IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF NORDIC COOPERATION
1 Pragmatic Scandinavianism: cultural, scholarly and practical cooperation 2
2 Political Scandinavianism in the nineteenth century 14
3 Nordic cooperation in the interwar period and the Norden associations 26
4 Nordic cooperation during the Second World War 38
5 History and theory of Nordic economic cooperation, 1845-1970 52
6 The Nordic consumer co-operative movement 64
PART II ORGANISING NORDIC OFFICIAL COOPERATION
7 The Nordic Passport Union and the Nordic Council 78
8 The impact of the Nordic Council of Ministers: cases of policy learning in
the Nordic Council of Ministers 88
9 The civil servants' network in the Nordic Council of Ministers: the case of
the Work Environment Committee 101
10 Nordic welfare states and Nordic cooperation 115
11 Labour Scandinavianism and cooperation of Nordic labour organisations 128
12 Urban cooperation in the Nordic countries 140
13 Nordic television cooperation: Nordvision and Nordsat 153
14 Nordic financial cooperation: the Nordic Investment Bank 165
PART III NORDIC POLICY COOPERATION
15 Nordic legal cooperation 178
16 Nordic Educational Cooperation 190
17 The organisation and articulation of Nordic peacefulness 202
18 Entangled histories of the Sámi and the Nordic nations: colonial legacies
of the Sámi national narrative 215
19 The common Nordic labour market 230
20 Nordic environmental and climate policies and cooperation 240
21 Gender knowledge in Nordic cooperation on gender equality 252
PART IV NORDIC COOPERATION AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD
22 Nordic cooperation in the League of Nations and the United Nations 265
23 The Nordic region and the European Union 280
24 Nordic defence cooperation 293
25 The Nordic region and NATO: security relations in change 307
26 The rise and decline of joint Nordic aid, 1960-1989 322
27 The Nordic region in the Arctic 334
28 From Cold War to cohesion: Nordic-Baltic cooperation in the post-Cold
War era 345
PART V EPILOGUE
29 Nordic cooperation: normative obligation, impotent community and valid
political argument 358
