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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Overview -- 1. The Nordics and European Integration -- 2. Explaining Policy Choices -- Part II. Changes in the Nordic Models -- 3. What's at Stake? -- 4. From Economic Interdependence to Political Integration -- Part III. The Argument -- 5. International Security: Nordic Preferences Change -- 6. The Political Influence of Leading Sectors -- Part IV. The Implications -- 7. Votes Count, Resources Decide -- 8. The Nordic States in European Politics -- Interviews in Scandinavia -- Appendix -- Index

The power of small states : diplomacy in World War II / Annette Baker Fox -- Lilliputians' dilemmas : small states in international politics / Robert O. Keohane -- The inequality of states : a study of the small power in international relations / David Vital -- Micro-states : the principality of Liechtenstein / Jorri Duursma -- Weak states in the international system / Michael Handel -- Small states in world markets : industrial policy in Europe / Peter J. Katzenstein -- The role of small states in the European Union / Baldur Thorhallsson -- Learning, realism, and alliances : the weight of the shadow of the past / Dan Reiter -- Norm entrepreneurs : Scandinavia's role in world politics / Christine Ingebritsen -- Conclusion : learning from Lilliput / Christine Ingebritsen

As the University of Washington prepared for the arrival of Dr. Paul
Farmer, a global health doctor and the subject of the campus common book,
Mountains Beyond Mountains (New York: Random House, 2003), a team
of faculty, administrators, and community leaders promoted ideas of global
citizenship both on and off the territorial boundaries of the campus. The
book, selected for its resonance with issues of general interest to the
campus (interdisciplinary approaches, student engagement, a new global
health initiative, the power of ideas, the role of entrepreneurship, and
the capacity for non-state actors in world politics to shape agendas), had
acquired a following more like a social movement than an administrative
initiative. Coffee shops adjoining the campus featured copies of the book,
and honors students coordinated and invited faculty members to come to
evening discussion sessions. As University of Washington Professor
Jonathan Mayer commented, "I have seen this book change careers and
change lives."

Promising scholarship in international relations is challenging existing approaches by positing the independent effect of `norms' in world politics. This article identifies `Scandinavia' (in its broadest conception, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland) as a group of militarily weak, economically dependent, small states that deliberately act as `norm entrepreneurs' in global eco-politics, conflict resolution, and the provision of aid. Scandinavia's role in world politics today is to provide alternative models of engagement — referred to here as the exercise of `social power'.

Part of a review symposium on a book edited by Hans Branner & Morten Kelstrup, Denmark's Policy towards Europe after 1945: History, Theory and Options (2000), in which Denmark's resistance to the European Union is discussed. 1 Reference.