Overview
- Addresses the concept of 'awkwardness', which has rarely been addressed in a systematic way and never in relation to the Nordic States
- Focuses on an area of study which is of increasing interest in the context of a potential ‘Brexit’ from the EU
- Analyses the implications of 'awkwardness' for broader, potentially cross-regional, study of awkward partners in regional integration
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Denmark and the EU
- Sweden and the EU
- Finland and the EU
- Norway and the EU
- integration policies in Nordic states
- Euroscepticism in Nordic states
- relationship between Nordic states
- political differences among Nordic states
- Nordic relationship with Russia
- European foreign and security policy
- Euro crisis
- Politicization of EU affairs
- Public opinion and European Integration
- Iceland and the EU
- Economic power relations in Nordic states
- Security relations in Nordic states
About this book
This book provides the first lengthy study of awkward states/partners in regional integration. Is awkwardness a characteristic of states in many global regions, or is it reducible to the particular case of the United Kingdom in European integration? The authors assess how far the concept of ‘awkwardness’ can travel, and apply it to the cases of the Nordic States’ involvement in and with the European Union - Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Norway. The renewed interest in the Nordic region is in part thanks to recent events in the on-going crisis of European integration, and particular its member states’ response to the refugee question, which appears to be undermining years of intra-regional solidarity even between the Nordic countries. The security dimension of the region further broadens the book’s readership beyond Nordic Politics specialists to IR scholars, as the Nordic countries share borders with Russia and are key players in the Baltic Sea Strategy seeking to involve Russia in looser forms of regional cooperation.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Malin Stegmann McCallion is Reader in Political Science at Karlstad University, Sweden. She has published in journals such as L'Europe en formation, Journal of European Integration, Regional Studies, and Regional and Federal Studies. Her research interests are regionalisation, multi-level governance and Swedish membership in the European Union. She is currently the Swedish expert with the Assembly of European Regions.
Alex Brianson is Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Kent’s Global Europe Centre, UK. He was formerly Professor of EU Politics at the University of Surrey, and previously held chairs at Brunel University and the University of Limerick. His research interests have focused on democracy and reform of the EU, differentiated integration, Green approaches to European integration, and comparative regional integration/regionalism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nordic States and European Integration
Book Subtitle: Awkward Partners in the North?
Editors: Malin Stegmann McCallion, Alex Brianson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57562-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57561-2Published: 21 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86194-4Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57562-9Published: 06 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 143
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Regionalism, European Union Politics