Nation building

The Nordic Model’ is a concept that appears frequently in scholarship, media reports, and public debates to refer to the socio-political organization…

From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of…

Listen to a potted history of the reunification of Denmark in 1920 in either English or Danish! This is the first of several podcasts where existing…

The reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark was made possible in 1920 with the German defeat in the First World War. It took place in June 1920…

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

Given the striking similarity of the Nordic societies, it is interesting to note how differently some of them have reacted to the current covid-19…

The “Nordic model” is often presented as a solution to the dominance of neoliberalism and the rise of populism. Populist tendencies within the region,…

In the first decades of the 21st century, some Norwegian commentators have been calling for an increased emphasis on commercial competition in…

Even though the welfare state in the Nordics is under pressure and its design is continuously debated, it has rarely been more strongly supported in…

Iceland was a largely uninhabited island in the northern Atlantic Ocean where Norsemen settled around 870. It began as a ‘free state’ but became a…