Det københavnske perspektiv: Imperiale kontrollstrategier og lojale mellommenn i det danske imperiet
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Det københavnske perspektiv : Imperiale kontrollstrategier og lojale mellommenn i det danske imperiet. / Adler-Nissen, Rebecca.
In: Internasjonal Politikk, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2014, p. 311-336.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Det københavnske perspektiv
T2 - Imperiale kontrollstrategier og lojale mellommenn i det danske imperiet
AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article seeks to understand how Copenhagen functioned as the political core ofthe Danish empire from absolutism in 1660 to the loss of Norway in 1814, thereby contributingto the debate on how empires hang together. My focus is the imperial middlemenor intermediaries who became astonishingly loyal to the core. This loyalty wasensured not through circulation of officials across the different parts of the empire, butthrough asymmetrical contracting, various strategies of control, binding and pivotingof local elites. The professionalization of civil servants involved much continuity withthe old landowning and noble elite and ensured that corruption, deceit or local autonomymovements could be sanctioned quickly. There was nothing inevitable in the fallof the Danish empire and its transformation into a rump nation-state. Instead, imperialrule was a dominant imaginary within which almost all protest against absolutistpower took place right up until the Napoleonic wars.
AB - This article seeks to understand how Copenhagen functioned as the political core ofthe Danish empire from absolutism in 1660 to the loss of Norway in 1814, thereby contributingto the debate on how empires hang together. My focus is the imperial middlemenor intermediaries who became astonishingly loyal to the core. This loyalty wasensured not through circulation of officials across the different parts of the empire, butthrough asymmetrical contracting, various strategies of control, binding and pivotingof local elites. The professionalization of civil servants involved much continuity withthe old landowning and noble elite and ensured that corruption, deceit or local autonomymovements could be sanctioned quickly. There was nothing inevitable in the fallof the Danish empire and its transformation into a rump nation-state. Instead, imperialrule was a dominant imaginary within which almost all protest against absolutistpower took place right up until the Napoleonic wars.
KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
KW - imperium
KW - Danmark
KW - Imperial Bureaucracy
KW - Empire
KW - Norway
KW - imperial discourses
KW - Imperialism
KW - International Relations Theory
KW - Imperial strategies
KW - loyalty
KW - middlemen
M3 - Tidsskriftartikel
VL - 72
SP - 311
EP - 336
JO - Internasjonal Politikk
JF - Internasjonal Politikk
SN - 0020-577X
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 160795639