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Mens USA og NATOs sikkerhedsgaranti udgør hjørnestenen i den europæiske sikkerhedsarkitektur, har den strukturelle rivalisering mellem USA og Kina samt Ruslands revisionistiske linje medført øgede amerikanske forventninger om, at Europa selv kan varetage regionale konflikter. Det har direkte konsekvenser for den danske militære aktivisme, der har været praktiseret som en reaktion på udviklingen i den regionale orden. Særligt den militariserede aktivisme har været designet til at fastholde et amerikansk engagement i det europæiske kontinent gennem en imødekommelse af amerikansk efterspørgsel. Det har ledt Danmark ind i en række koalitionskrige, hvor internationalisme har været direkte koblet til at betale for sikkerhedsgarantien og for at nyttegøre NATO-alliancen for amerikanerne. Denne forretningsmodel er under pres i den øgede strukturelle rivalisering, tilstedeværelsen af regionale trusler og øget europæisk samarbejde. Derved bevæger aktivismen sig i en ny balancerende regional fase, hvor Danmark aktiv skal investere i de vestlige sikkerhedsinstitutioner for at balancere de regionale trusler.

Shelter theory has emerged as a promising but unrealized alternative to existing theories of bandwagon and hiding in the literature. It describes how small states can utilize the structural power of great powers to achieve political aims through the formation of asymmetric alliances. At present it is not clear exactly what shelter diplomacy aims to achieve, what type of costs it protects small states against and to what degree asymmetric shelters are useful when the preferences between the small state and the shelter partner widen. The article addresses these gaps. It develops a realist inspired model of shelter diplomacy that specifies when, how and with what effects small states can utilize the structural powers of great powers. It demonstrates how shelter diplomacy can help small states balance the costs of abandonment and entrapment in the alliance dilemma through construction of both asymmetric and symmetric shelters. The main contributions are to bring shelter diplomacy into the International Relations mainstream literature and develop a new theoretical middle position between the more well-described bandwagon and hiding strategies. The model is applied to a Danish case that demonstrates how small states have utilized and adopted dynamic shelter strategies in the European integration process.

Henrik Larsen, Teorier om dansk udenrigspolitik efter den kolde krigs afslutning, Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2017 (anmeldt af Rasmus Brun Pedersen)

Why do the small Nordic states engage themselves in militarized interventions alongside the United States? The article argues that the Nordic states gradually have begun to perceive militarized coalition participation as an important tool to gain reputation and improve their status position. A good relationship with the United States is considered as a means to either consolidate or improve their relative status position and also secure protection or 'shelter' against regional competitors by improving their reputation. Empirically, the article contributes to our understanding of the status-seeking strategies of the Nordic countries and how they might have utilized a more militarized activism to seek status that departs from the traditional Nordic internationalism. Theoretically, the article contributes to our understanding of the concept of 'status' in international relations by offering a new explanation of the puzzling willingness of small states to use military means in international conflicts where immaterial gains play a larger role than otherwise assumed in the realist small-state literature.

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Danish foreign policy is under transformation. Different versions of activism have gradually replaced adaptation and lately Denmark has participated more actively and independently in world politics than ever before. The core in activism is based on a liberal value system that seems to have replaced the adaptation logics dominating Danish foreign policy during the Cold War. Activism has evolved from a multilateral inspired activism in the 1990s to a more Atlantic centred activism during the 2000s. While analysts see the different phases as opposites, my argument is that the types of activism should be seen as a difference of degree rather than a difference of kind. 'Activism' as a foreign policy strategy, however, should be considered analytically as a difference in kind from the adaptation strategies that dominated Danish foreign policy during the Cold War. The main driving force behind this transformation can be found domestically in the Liberal Party's dominant position in Danish politics.

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The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis to explain, predict and evaluate what states and other collective actors want, how they make decisions, and key determinants of state security, diplomatic, and economic foreign policies. Providing a broad set of theoretical tools for analysing foreign policy, and including increased coverage of methodology, this new edition provides students with the skills to undertake their own foreign policy analysis.