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This book explores the history of Nordic human rights politics and
practices from the 1930s to present day. The authors use previously
unexplored archival materials to bring to light how a broad range
of Nordic actors have engaged with international human rights
globally and at a European level and how these norms have been
taken up and interpreted in the region. Do the Nordic countries
warrant the label 'global good Samaritans' in human rights
promotion? Is the Nordic welfare state a close to perfect
realisation of human rights norms? Or do Nordic international and
domestic human rights policies constitute a peculiar 'Nordic human
rights paradox' where norms are supported internationally while not
being implemented at home? Are the ideals of the national welfare
state and universal human rights compatible? In this book, the
authors take issue with previous scholarship and argue for the need
for careful historical investigations into how a broad range of
Nordic actors have contributed to creating international human
rights. This history is much more varied than what was previously
assumed. The lack of prior interest in the region means there are
several promising avenues for historical investigations of both the
Nordic countries in human rights history and the role of human
rights in the history of the region. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Nordic
Journal of Human Rights.
The recent crises in global economy and in European integration
have caused a considerable revival of interest in the Nordic
Welfare Model. However, less attention has been given to the ways
in which the nations that form Scandinavia or 'Norden' are
connected through various forms of inter- and transnational
cooperation. With contributions from a team of experts in the
field, this volume analyses Nordic cooperation in a European
perspective and argues that this special form of transnational
cooperation has been crucial in the development of the Nordic
Welfare Model. In addition, it also contends that the Nordic model
of transnational cooperation is a relevant case study when
pondering the present problems of European integration. This text
will be of key interest to students, researchers and policy makers
studying the Nordic Model and transnational cooperation and more
generally to those interested in European studies, Scandinavian
studies, welfare studies, international relations and regional
integration.
The recent crises in global economy and in European integration
have caused a considerable revival of interest in the Nordic
Welfare Model. However, less attention has been given to the ways
in which the nations that form Scandinavia or 'Norden' are
connected through various forms of inter- and transnational
cooperation. With contributions from a team of experts in the
field, this volume analyses Nordic cooperation in a European
perspective and argues that this special form of transnational
cooperation has been crucial in the development of the Nordic
Welfare Model. In addition, it also contends that the Nordic model
of transnational cooperation is a relevant case study when
pondering the present problems of European integration. This text
will be of key interest to students, researchers and policy makers
studying the Nordic Model and transnational cooperation and more
generally to those interested in European studies, Scandinavian
studies, welfare studies, international relations and regional
integration.
The terms 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are widely used to refer to
the politics, society and culture of Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden. But why have people felt the need to frame
things as Nordic and why has the adjective Nordic become so
prominent? This book adopts a rhetorical approach, analysing the
speech acts which have shaped the meanings of the term. What do the
different terms Nordic and Scandinavian have in common, and how
have the uses of these terms changed in different historical
periods? What accounts for the apparent upsurge in uses of the
rhetoric of Nordicness in the 2010s? Drawing on eight case studies
of the uses of Nordic and Scandinavian from the nineteenth century
to the present day, the book explores the appeal and the
flexibility of the rhetoric of Nordicness, in relation to race,
openness, gender equality, food, crime fiction, Nordic co-operation
and the Nordic model. Arguing that 'Nordic' and 'Scandinavian' are
flexible and contested concepts that have been used in different,
often contradictory and inherently political ways, the book
suggests that the usage of the term has evolved from a means of
creating a cultural community, to forging political co-operation
and further to marketing models in politics and popular culture.
The rhetorical approach also shows how many of the hallmarks of
Nordic political culture, such as the Nordic model, Nordic gender
equality or Nordic openness are more recent conceptualisations than
usually assumed. As such, the book argues for the need to turn
attention away from analysing the different components of
Nordicness into studying how, when, and for what purpose different
features were made Nordic.
Democracy is today a concept that is overwhelmingly positively
evaluated almost everywhere, but even the most universalistic
oriented accounts generally discuss a number of paradigmatic cases
such as Athenian democracy, French democracy, or American
democracy. A lot has been written about socio-economic and cultural
backgrounds of democratic regimes as well as their institutional
settings. By contrast, not much is known about the political
manoeuvres and speech acts by which "democracy" has been tied to
particular regions and cultures in concrete historical situations.
This book discusses a series of efforts to rhetorically produce and
reproduce a particular Nordic version of democracy. It will show
that the rhetorical figure "Nordic democracy" was a product of the
age of totalitarianism and the Cold War. It will explore the ways
in which "Nordic democracy" was used, mainly by the social
democrats, to provide the welfare politics with cultural and
historical legitimacy and foundations, and thus acknowledge the
ideological and geopolitical context in which the "Nordic welfare
state" was conceptualised and canonised.
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