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The creation of the union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway was a key event in late medieval history of Scandinavia. The treaty was passed in Kalmar in 1397. The details of the events are the subject of scholarly discussions. The present article provides an analysis of the fundamental sources of the Union of Kalmar, comments on modern approaches and concepts, points at the prospects for a comparative study.

The article presents the current state of comparative research into the Kalmar Union and the Polish-Lithuanian unions, contributing to the postulate of the need for further detailed comparative studies in this field. It outlines a genesis of the unions (their causes, the 1385 Act of Krewo and the 1397 Kalmar Union [unionsbrevet]), then characterises the both documents and conducts a comparative analysis; indicates the similarities between the unions as regards rivalry for the leadership; emphasises the role played by Queen Margaret in the conclusion of the union, and describes the independent rule of Erik of Pomerania with its results. Next, it analyses the transformation of the Kalmar Union together with its successive stages and the causes of its collapse; the fate of the two unions after they formally ended and their impact on the historical development of the member states. Finally, it attempts to indicate lines of further comparative research into the both unions. ; Artykuł prezentuje dotychczasowy stan badań komparatystycznych nad unią kalmarską i uniami polsko-litewskimi. Na wstępie przedstawiono genezę obu unii: przyczyny ich zawarcia, scharakteryzowano i porównano dokumenty obu układów: w Krewie (1385 r.) i unii kalmarskej (unionsbrevet) (1397 r.). Wskazano również podobieństwa obu związków na płaszczyźnie rywalizacji o przywództwo, a także rolę królowej Małgorzaty w zawarciu unii oraz samodzielne rządy Eryka Pomorskiego i ich skutki. Następnie przybliżono transformację unii kalmarskiej, jej poszczególne etapy i przyczyny upadku oraz losy obu związków unijnych po ich formalnym ustaniu i ich wpływ na dalszy rozwój państw członkowskich. Na zakończenie podjęto próbę wytyczenia kierunków dalszych badań porównawczych nad obydwoma uniami, stawiając postulat o konieczności ich kontynuowania i rozwijania.

The article presents the current state of comparative research into the Kalmar Union and the Polish-Lithuanian unions, contributing to the postulate of the need for further detailed comparative studies in this field. It outlines a genesis of the unions (their causes, the 1385 Act of Krewo and the 1397 Kalmar Union [unionsbrevet]), then characterises the both documents and conducts a comparative analysis; indicates the similarities between the unions as regards rivalry for the leadership; emphasises the role played by Queen Margaret in the conclusion of the union, and describes the independent rule of Erik of Pomerania with its results. Next, it analyses the transformation of the Kalmar Union together with its successive stages and the causes of its collapse; the fate of the two unions after they formally ended and their impact on the historical development of the member states. Finally, it attempts to indicate lines of further comparative research into the both unions. ; Artykuł prezentuje dotychczasowy stan badań komparatystycznych nad unią kalmarską i uniami polsko-litewskimi. Na wstępie przedstawiono genezę obu unii: przyczyny ich zawarcia, scharakteryzowano i porównano dokumenty obu układów: w Krewie (1385 r.) i unii kalmarskej (unionsbrevet) (1397 r.). Wskazano również podobieństwa obu związków na płaszczyźnie rywalizacji o przywództwo, a także rolę królowej Małgorzaty w zawarciu unii oraz samodzielne rządy Eryka Pomorskiego i ich skutki. Następnie przybliżono transformację unii kalmarskiej, jej poszczególne etapy i przyczyny upadku oraz losy obu związków unijnych po ich formalnym ustaniu i ich wpływ na dalszy rozwój państw członkowskich. Na zakończenie podjęto próbę wytyczenia kierunków dalszych badań porównawczych nad obydwoma uniami, stawiając postulat o konieczności ich kontynuowania i rozwijania.

The content of this report is a Deliverable of the FP7 project RUFUS (Rural Future Networks) concerning the Swedish case studies that have been conducted within the project. Two regions in the south of Sweden – the counties of Kronoberg and Kalmar – have been studied in order to find out how social and economic development strategies are enacted in these rural regions. This report concerns Kalmar County. The aim of the study has been to discover how different sectoral policies are taken into account in the planning system and how the political actors and administrations are helped or hindered by the EU funding system in their work towards a sustainable future of the regions.

This paper investigates the occurrence of two common but contradictory themes in the political discourse in fifteenth-century Scandinavia: on the one hand proclamations of the essential bonds existing between Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and on the other hand expressions of hostility against what is represented as foreign rule. The aim is to examine how different forms of discourse reveal coexisting and sometimes oppositional expressions of identity, with a particular focus on the role of cultural memory in the elaboration of these themes. A crucial political framework for the analysis is the Kalmar Union, which throughout the century constituted a common, if not always implemented, form of government of the Scandinavian kingdoms. The article explores the occurrence of nativist ideas of origin and identity within the pragmatics of a game of power in fifteenth century Scandinavia. In the vernacular chronicles of fifteenth-century Denmark and Sweden, differentiating between categories of men such as inborn and foreigner was a prominent way of expressing views about legitimate claims to power and privileges in the realms. In the construction of coherent and meaningful narratives of a common past, identities linked to birth and regnal belonging were apparently important. At the same time, personal bonds based on friendship, kinship and allegiance, played a fundamental role in the political dealings of the period. Particular bonds of love were also perceived to exist between the realms, as shown in the treaties negotiated between the realms. Rather than giving priority to the importance of one specific sense of identity in the political game of the period, it is argued that the complex relationships governing political action and discourse in late-medieval Scandinavia should be conceived in terms of entangled identities, where the different forms of identification and allegiance remain distinct, while at the same time inseparable from each other.

Since the 'migration crisis' of 2016, long-simmering tensions between the Western members of the European Union and its 'new' Eastern members – Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – have proven to be fertile ground for rebellion against liberal values and policies. In this startling and original book Ivan Kalmar argues that Central European illiberalism is a misguided response to the devastating effects of global neoliberalism, which arose from the area's brutal transition to capitalism in the 1990s. Kalmar argues that dismissive attitudes towards 'Eastern Europeans' are a form of racism and explores the close relation between racism towards Central Europeans and racism by Central Europeans: a people white but not quite