THE NORDIC PEACE
The Nordic Peace
Edited by
Clive Archer
Manchester Metropolitan University
Pertti Joenniemi
Copenhagen Peace Research Institute
First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2017 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The Nordic peace
1.Scandinavian cooperation 2.Peace 3.Scandinavia - Foreign
relations
I.Archer, Clive II.Joenniemi, Pertti
327.1'7'0948
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Nordic peace / edited by Clive Archer and Pertti Joenniemi
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7546-1417-4 (alk. paper)
1.ScandinaviaStrategic aspects. 2.National securityScandinavia. 3.
ScandinaviaEthnic relations. 4.Peace. I.Archer, Clive. II.Joenniemi, Pertti.
UA646.7.N672 2002
327.1'72'0948dc21
2002071159
ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-1417-3 (hbk)
Clive Archer is a Research Professor in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is author of International Organizations (3rd ed., 2001) and has written extensively on the Nordic region. He is chair of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) in the United Kingdom.
Magnus Ericson is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Lund University. He received his PhD in 2000 and is currently involved in a research project concerning the contemporary European security order. He is author of A Realist Stable Peace (2000).
Lauri Hannikainen , LL.D, is Senior Researcher at the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. Author of Peremptory Norms (Jus Cogens) in International Law Historical Development, Criteria and Present Status (1988), he has written extensively on international human rights, especially on minority rights. He is the Finnish member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance at the Council of Europe.
Tore Henriksen is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at University of Troms, Norway. He defended his thesis on international fisheries law and straddling fish stocks for the doctoral degree in Law (dr. juris) at the University of Troms in December 2001.
Pertti Joenniemi is Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for Nordic-Baltic studies at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). He has recently published on northernness in the context of the EU, region-building around the Baltic Rim, the Kaliningrad puzzle in EU/Russia relations, the future of St. Petersburg, and the unfolding of war in the 21st century. He is co-editor of The NEBI Yearbook North European and Baltic Integration.
Gunnar Karlsson is a professor of History at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. He has written on the history of Iceland in the Middle Ages and 19th century and published a number of history textbooks. Among his works is Iceland's 1100 Years: the history of a marginal society (2000).
Jrgen Khl is Director of the Danish Institute of Border Region Studies, Aabenraa since 1999. He is a historian and an external university lecturer and was a museum director 1990-99. Has specialized in contemporary minority issues and border region studies. His books and articles include those on German minorities in Eastern Europe and Asia, Central European minorities, national minorities in the Danish-German borderlands, minority policies, and a secondary education textbook on national minorities in Europe.
Lise Lyck is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and at Copenhagen University. She has specialised in strategy and management of regionalisation, and has published widely especially on Arctic economic and political development, including that of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. She represents the social sciences on the Scientific Commission for Greenland.
Sia Spiliopoulou kermark is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University. She has written extensively on minority rights and is currently conducting research on international financial institutions.
Henrik Stenius is research director of the Centre for Nordic Studies at the Renval Institute, Helsinki University. His previous research focused on mobilization in Finland from the mid 18th century to the start of the 20th century, with his PhD ( Frivilligt jmlikt samfllt. Freningsvsendets utveckling i Finland fram till 1900-talets brjan) being in this field. More recently, he has been involved in several projects concerning conceptual history, with the current main topic being the concept of citizen.
Hkan Wiberg was Professor of Sociology at Lund University in Sweden before serving in 1998 through 2001 as Director of COPRI, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He (co)authored or (co)edited some twenty books, including a couple on the Nordic region, which he has also covered in several book chapters and articles.
This book is a result of a dialogue between the two editors during the stay of Clive Archer at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) during 1999 and 2000. We were interested in why the Nordic region had seemingly become so peaceful and whether the case had anything to say for other parts of Europe. The discussion spread and, thanks to the support of COPRI and the then Director, Hkan Wiberg, we were able to contact scholars who had worked on various aspects of the Nordic region related to this wider issue of the 'Nordic Peace'.
Our further study and discussions was supported by Nordisk Kulturfond (the Nordic Cultural Fund) to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. COPRI also provided generous financial and logistical support in gathering together authors from five Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, as did the Renval Institute at the University of Helsinki.
This study provides a start to what we hope will be a continuing debate about the 'Nordic Peace'. In particular, space has precluded a more in-depth analysis of the lessons to be learned for the Baltic states and for the European Union (although the latter is touched upon in the first and last chapters). We look forward to scholars taking up this challenge. It should, after all, contribute to wider debates about notions of a 'democratic peace' and about the concept of a security community.
As editors we are grateful to the individual authors of the chapters for not just their contributions but also their readiness to discuss these together in the context of the idea of a 'Nordic Peace'.
Clive Archer
Pertti Joenniemi
