External danger and democracy : old Nordic lessons and new European challenges

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External danger and democracy : old Nordic lessons and new European challenges

Hans Mouritzen

Dartmouth, c1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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