Region building

Are the Nordic countries really that similar to one another? - Or different from the rest of the world? Is discussion of 'the Nordics' simply a…

Immediately before and after the Nordic Council was founded in 1952, there was much debate over what form cooperation should take amongst the…

The NORDEK plan (so called due to the Swedish name for Nordic Economic Union (NORDiskt EKonomiskt samarbete)) grew out of a Danish initiative to…

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…

As small, open economies, all the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden) have been well integrated in the regional and…

Read a potted history of Iceland from the Vikings to today.

The Danes voted on membership of the EEC on 2nd October 1972, and two days later, the French newspaper Le Monde published an article in which the…

Over a period of more than 70 years, the Nordic countries have worked together to produce comparative statistics on social and health issues with the…

The Arctic is a circumpolar region centered on the North Pole, home to diverse human populations, landscapes, vegetation, and wildlife. The climate is…

Few have been there and yet everyone has some image of what the Arctic is. For most people, it conjures up images of an extreme environment, white and…