Regional Cooperation in Scandinavia

• Published in: International Organization
• Main Author: Padelford, Norman J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1957
• Subjects: Law; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science; Norway; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818300024309; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0020818300024309

It has been said that the northern nations of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, personify unity within diversity. Ties of ethnographic and cultural kinship give these northern peoples a sense of unity and a desire for working together. At the same time, the varying outlooks and aspirations which the five countries have come to hold as a result of their differing geographic, economic and political conditions and experiences, have produced a strong desire for independence and the preservation of their own ways of life.