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

• ContentsPreface xiPART I EARLY IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF NORDIC COOPERATION1 Pragmatic Scandinavianism: cultural, scholarly and practical cooperation 22 Political Scandinavianism in the nineteenth century 143 Nordic cooperation in the interwar period and the Norden associations 264 Nordic cooperation during the Second World War 385 History and theory of Nordic economic cooperation, 1845–1970 526 The Nordic consumer co-operative movement 64PART II ORGANISING NORDIC OFFICIAL COOPERATION7 The Nordic Passport Union and the Nordic Council 788 The impact of the Nordic Council of Ministers: cases of policy learning inthe Nordic Council of Ministers 889 The civil servants’ network in the Nordic Council of Ministers: the case ofthe Work Environment Committee 10110 Nordic welfare states and Nordic cooperation 11511 Labour Scandinavianism and cooperation of Nordic labour organisations 12812 Urban cooperation in the Nordic countries 14013 Nordic television cooperation: Nordvision and Nordsat 15314 Nordic financial cooperation: the Nordic Investment Bank 165PART III NORDIC POLICY COOPERATION15 Nordic legal cooperation 17816 Nordic Educational Cooperation 19017 The organisation and articulation of Nordic peacefulness 20218 Entangled histories of the Sámi and the Nordic nations: colonial legaciesof the Sámi national narrative 21519 The common Nordic labour market 23020 Nordic environmental and climate policies and cooperation 24021 Gender knowledge in Nordic cooperation on gender equality 252PART IV NORDIC COOPERATION AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD22 Nordic cooperation in the League of Nations and the United Nations 26523 The Nordic region and the European Union 28024 Nordic defence cooperation 29325 The Nordic region and NATO: security relations in change 30726 The rise and decline of joint Nordic aid, 1960–1989 32227 The Nordic region in the Arctic 33428 From Cold War to cohesion: Nordic-Baltic cooperation in the post-ColdWar era 345PART V EPILOGUE29 Nordic cooperation: normative obligation, impotent community and validpolitical argument 358

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