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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: troubling concepts and theories -- Are there inadmissible concepts? -- Conventional research practice and its consequences for the study of the state and integration -- Depicting plurality -- 2 Approaches to the relationship between the state and integration -- Integration as a solution to the problems of the state and the system of states -- Integration as a process in which the state is weakened or replaced -- The state which strengthens itself through integration -- Integration which transforms the state -- 3 Causes and consequences -- The state of the art in integration studies: a self-portrait with some corrective remarks -- The crucial assumptions and questions -- Origins of the assumptions -- 4 Opting for integration: the slow retreat of Nordic cooperation -- EU enlargement: a push towards a necessary reappraisal of Nordic cooperation -- The symptomatic failures of the grand designs in security and economy -- The low profile of Nordic achievements -- Nordic institutions: deliberately in a minor role -- Implications for the encounter with European integration -- The challenge of the EU: increasing incompatibility -- 5 Nordic integration: elements of a model -- The 1990s: new dynamism for Nordic cooperation -- The peculiar extent and methods of Nordic integration -- The acquis nordique -- Meeting of two methods of integration -- 6 Finnish EU membership: an integration policy turned on its head -- The customary principles of neutrality and sovereignty in Finnish integration policy -- The EEA: a step into a whirlpool -- The rhetoric of application and the implications of membership -- 7 EU membership: a new dimension to Finland's integration -- The logic of membership -- Neutrality: the cold war means in Finnish integration policy

This book studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing on examples that highlight how the EU relates to NATO and to the UN, it shows how consequential inter-organisational relations are for the functioning and nature of the organisations, and how important it is to detect the forms of power exerted in these relations. Power, for international organisations, is above all about relevance. In an era when the legitimacy and role of international organisations is increasingly questioned, the organisations have a growing concern for ensuring their continued relevance. Subsequently, the management of relevance is a central part of inter-organisational relations and becomes visible in the way organisations handle questions about their tasks, hierarchies and image. Clear and accessible, the book will appeal both to the growing scholarly community working on inter-organisational relations and to a variety of audiences including practitioners and scholars outside the field of international relations.