Forerunner, follower, exceptionalist or bridge builder?
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Forerunner, follower, exceptionalist or bridge builder? / Wivel, Anders.
In: Global Affairs, Vol. 4, No. 4-5, 2018, p. 419-434.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Forerunner, follower, exceptionalist or bridge builder?
AU - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Since the early Cold War Denmark has been part of a cluster of Nordic states characterized by their commitment to Scandinavian welfare state values at home and abroad. However, today Danish foreign policy is at the same time super-Nordic, un-Nordic and anti-Nordic. The role of Nordicness in Danish foreign policy has been largely overlooked in the literature on post-Cold War Danish foreign policy, but I identify four different roles for Nordicness in Danish foreign policy: forerunner, follower, bridge builder and exceptionalist. I explore each of these roles discussing what they tell us about the role of Nordicness in Danish foreign policy, and how the roles play out in different issue areas and to which extent the importance of each role has changed over time. I argue that while each role depicts Denmark as a fringe Nordic country, Nordicness continues to play an important, but mostly uncredited, as a source of ideas for Danish foreign policy.
AB - Since the early Cold War Denmark has been part of a cluster of Nordic states characterized by their commitment to Scandinavian welfare state values at home and abroad. However, today Danish foreign policy is at the same time super-Nordic, un-Nordic and anti-Nordic. The role of Nordicness in Danish foreign policy has been largely overlooked in the literature on post-Cold War Danish foreign policy, but I identify four different roles for Nordicness in Danish foreign policy: forerunner, follower, bridge builder and exceptionalist. I explore each of these roles discussing what they tell us about the role of Nordicness in Danish foreign policy, and how the roles play out in different issue areas and to which extent the importance of each role has changed over time. I argue that while each role depicts Denmark as a fringe Nordic country, Nordicness continues to play an important, but mostly uncredited, as a source of ideas for Danish foreign policy.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - Nordic foreign policy
KW - Scandinavia
KW - Small states
KW - role theory
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - Nordic foreign policy
KW - Scaninavia
KW - small states
KW - role theory
U2 - 10.1080/23340460.2018.1557016
DO - 10.1080/23340460.2018.1557016
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 419
EP - 434
JO - Global Affairs
JF - Global Affairs
SN - 2334-0460
IS - 4-5
ER -
ID: 213882780