Carl Marklund

Carl Marklund is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University. His research examines social planning, geopolitics and images of Sweden, e.g. in the Global South. You can read more about Carl by clicking here.

Contributions to nordics.info

31 March 2025 - Andreas Mørkved Hellenes

The different faces of the region and its constituent parts are reflected in the changing meaning of the ‘Nordic model’ over time

14 June 2024 - Agata Pyka

Watch a film about the Nordic responses to the famine following the Biafra region in Nigeria claiming independence in 1967.

05 March 2024 - Agata Pyka

Listen to a podcast on how Nordic public and voluntary organisations - particularly in Denmark, Sweden and Finland - responded to the famine which…

16 June 2021 - Carl Marklund

Listen to a podcast on how some of Sweden’s policymaking successes and failures since the Cold War have been perceived in Sweden itself as well as…

The front of the New York Times with Biden with a face mask on.

09 November 2020 - Byron Zachary Rom-Jensen

Scandinavian “socialism” has been oddly absent from the final stages of the recent US election. It is possible to trace the arguments for and against…

Södertörn University just outside Stockholm, where the podcasts were recorded at the Institute of Contemporary History

15 April 2020 - Andreas Mørkved Hellenes

Since the interwar years, foreign observers have regularly portrayed the Nordic countries as well functioning states, successful in solving crises,…

Revised 13.09.2023

Carl Marklund

Contributions to nordics.info

Interpretations of the Nordic Model since the 1930s

Film: The Biafra Airlift and Nordic Humanitarianism

NNL POD 14: What was the Nordic humanitarian response to the Biafra Crisis?

Uncovering Sweden in an International Context with Carl Marklund

Vanishing Scandinavian "socialism" in the 2020 US election

Podcast: The Nordic Model: Heaven or Hell?