External danger and democracy : old Nordic lessons and new European challenges
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Bibliographic Information
External danger and democracy : old Nordic lessons and new European challenges
Dartmouth, c1997
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Should national EU policy be formulated in a foreign policy way, or should each member state be allowed to pursue their own parochial interests? Using case studies, this work tests the theory that a group will centralize and speak with one voice when exposed to external danger.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theory: self-control as adrenalin
- theorizing on groups, organizations, nation-states, and alliances
- the proposition and its justification
- where it does not apply
- implications for democracy
- compensating for the democratic deficit - alternative legitimacy
- the Europes of our cases. Part 2 Facing classic dangers: Denmark 1933 - an emerging Nazi threat
- Denmark 1940 - democracy and Nazi occupation
- Sweden 1939 - democracy surrounded by war
- Finland from 1944 - democracy in Eastern longitudes. Part 3 Three candidate deviant cases: the proposition - preliminary status
- Czechoslovakia 1938 - facing a Trojan horse
- Vichy France 1940 - reaction to disaster
- the Swedish submarine epoch from 1982
- cohesion and Nordicity. Part 4 Facing the European Union: post-Cold War Europe - a new type of dangers?
- Finland 1992 - substituting the EU for the Soviet Union?
- Sweden 1990 - inviting new autonomy dangers
- Denmark 1990 - reacting to German unification. Part 5 Old Nordic lessons and new European challenges: revised status of the proposition?
- types of danger - a clarification
- types of danger - more or less adrenalin?
- the relevant EU peculiarities
- facing the EU - defensive vs offensive strategies
- the case of the foodstuffs directives
- specifying boundary conditions
- the modern cases as semi-deviant ones
- centralization in EU policy - an EU-12 overview
- de-parliamentarization in perspective
- governmental centralization in perspective
- Nordic self-control heritage - an asset or an obstacle?. Part 6 Conclusions and perspectives - conclusions and methodological reflections
- democracy and foreign policy
- self-control and neo-realism.
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