A Tale of Two Nordic Powers
Chapter 8 explores Denmark and Norway’s divergent responses to the revelation of Arctic resources in 2007. This chapter employs a natural experiment that exploits the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s. The two Nordic nations are extremely similar, but Norway discovered oil, while Denmark did n...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780190078249.003.0008 2023-05-15T14:54:09+02:00 A Tale of Two Nordic Powers Markowitz, Jonathan N. 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078249.003.0008 unknown Oxford University Press Perils of Plenty page 178-223 book-chapter 2020 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190078249.003.0008 2022-08-05T10:32:16Z Chapter 8 explores Denmark and Norway’s divergent responses to the revelation of Arctic resources in 2007. This chapter employs a natural experiment that exploits the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s. The two Nordic nations are extremely similar, but Norway discovered oil, while Denmark did not. Norway embarked on a resource-driven development path, while Denmark, with no oil reserves to exploit, invested heavily in its citizens’ productivity and human capital. As a result, Norway’s economic structure became land-oriented and Denmark’s production-oriented. This provides an opportunity to observe the effect that variation in each state’s economic structure had on its preference for territory and willingness to compete over its control. The findings reveal that Norway’s economic dependence on income from natural resources drove Oslo to invest much more than Copenhagen in projecting power to secure Arctic claims. This finding strongly confirms Rent-Addiction Theory’s predictions. Book Part Arctic Oxford University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Norway 178 223 |
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Chapter 8 explores Denmark and Norway’s divergent responses to the revelation of Arctic resources in 2007. This chapter employs a natural experiment that exploits the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s. The two Nordic nations are extremely similar, but Norway discovered oil, while Denmark did not. Norway embarked on a resource-driven development path, while Denmark, with no oil reserves to exploit, invested heavily in its citizens’ productivity and human capital. As a result, Norway’s economic structure became land-oriented and Denmark’s production-oriented. This provides an opportunity to observe the effect that variation in each state’s economic structure had on its preference for territory and willingness to compete over its control. The findings reveal that Norway’s economic dependence on income from natural resources drove Oslo to invest much more than Copenhagen in projecting power to secure Arctic claims. This finding strongly confirms Rent-Addiction Theory’s predictions. |
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