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The Scandinavian International Society
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state.
Schouenborg aims to take the next big step in the theoretical development of the English School of International Relations – particularly the structural version introduced by Barry Buzan. He analyses the formation of a Scandinavian regional international society over a 200-year period and develops the concepts of ‘pri-mary institutions’ and ‘binding forces’ as an analytical framework. In doing so, he not only offers one of the first systematic applications of English School structural theory, but also sheds a new comparative light on the distinctiveness of Scandinavian international relations, and provides a novel intervention in the debates about the emergence of the so-called Nordic Peace.
In the first part of the book Schouenborg explains the core concepts and discusses how one may distinguish a regional international society from the broader global international society in which it is embedded. In the second part he provides an in-depth study of the Scandinavian case, focusing on the periods: 1815 to 1919; 1919 to 1989; and 1989 to 2010.
The Scandinavian International Society will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, Scandinavian international relations and history, and also to researchers engaged in comparative welfare state studies.
Laust Schouenborg holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics, UK, and is Assistant Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark.
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The New International Relations
Edited by Richard Little, University of Bristol, Iver B. Neumann, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway and Jutta Weldes, University of Bristol
The field of international relations has changed dramatically in recent years. This new series will cover the major issues that have emerged and reflect the latest academic thinking in this particular dynamic area.
International Law, Rights and Politics
Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS
Rein Mullerson
The Logic of Internationalism
Coercion and accommodation
Kjell Goldmann
Russia and the Idea of Europe
A study in identity and international relations
Iver B. Neumann
The Future of International Relations
Masters in the making?
Edited by Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver
Constructing the World Polity
Essays on international institutionalization
John Gerard Ruggie
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy
The continuing story of a death foretold
Stefano Guzzini
International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order
Beyond international relations theory?
N.J. Rengger
War, Peace and World Orders in European History
Edited by Anja V. Hartmann and Beatrice Heuser
European Integration and National Identity
The challenge of the Nordic states
Edited by Lene Hansen and Ole Wæver
Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars
A political economy of intra-state war
Dietrich Jung
Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research
Edited by Stefano Guzzini and Dietrich Jung
Observing International Relations
Niklas Luhmann and world politics
Edited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier
Does China Matter? A Reassessment
Essays in memory of Gerald Segal
Edited by Barry Buzan and Rosemary Foot
European Approaches to International Relations Theory
A house with many mansions
Jörg Friedrichs
The Post-Cold War International System
Strategies, institutions and reflexivity
Ewan Harrison
States of Political Discourse
Words, regimes, seditions
Costas M. Constantinou
The Politics of Regional Identity
Meddling with the Mediterranean
Michelle Pace
The Power of International Theory
Reforging the link to foreign policy-making through scientific enquiry
Fred Chernoff
Africa and the North
Between globalization and marginalization
Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm
Rye Olsen
Communitarian International Relations
The epistemic foundations of international relations
Emanuel Adler
Human Rights and World Trade
Hunger in international society
Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez
Liberalism and War
The victors and the vanquished
Andrew William
Constructivism and International Relations
Alexander Wendt and his critics
Edited by Stefano Guzzini and Anna Leander
Security as Practice
Discourse analysis and the Bosnian War
Lene Hansen
The Politics of Insecurity
Fear, migration and asylum in the EU
Jef Huysmans
State Sovereignty and Intervention
A discourse analysis of interventionary and non-interventionary practices in Kosovo and Algeria
Helle Malmvig
Culture and Security
Symbolic power and the politics of international security
Michael Williams
Hegemony & History
Adam Watson
Territorial Conflicts in World Society
Modern systems theory, international relations and conflict studies
Edited by Stephan Stetter
Ontological Security in International Relations
Self-identity and the IR state
Brent J. Steele
The International Politics of Judicial Intervention
Creating a more just order
Andrea Birdsall
Pragmatism in International Relations
Edited by Harry Bauer and Elisabetta Brighi
Civilization and Empire
China and Japan’s encounter with European international society
Shogo Suzuki
Transforming World Politics
From Empire to Multiple Worlds
Anna M. Agathangelou and L.H.M. Ling
The Politics of Becoming European
A study of Polish and Baltic post-Cold War security imaginaries
Maria Mälksoo
Social Power in International Politics
Peter Van Ham
International Relations and Identity
A dialogical approach
Xavier Guillaume
The Puzzle of Politics
Inquiries into the genesis and ransformation of international relations
Friedrich...
