What Activates an Identity? The Case of Norden
Despite a general acknowledgement that knowledge about identities is essential for understanding international relations, surprisingly little has been written about what actually activates one of a state’s many identities and not another. More generally, the article suggests that situational relevan...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0047117809359039 2024-06-16T07:40:57+00:00 What Activates an Identity? The Case of Norden Andersson, Hans E. 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117809359039 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0047117809359039 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license International Relations volume 24, issue 1, page 46-64 ISSN 0047-1178 1741-2862 journal-article 2010 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117809359039 2024-05-19T13:18:24Z Despite a general acknowledgement that knowledge about identities is essential for understanding international relations, surprisingly little has been written about what actually activates one of a state’s many identities and not another. More generally, the article suggests that situational relevance and commitment are of importance. More specifically, it is suggested that a policy area’s legitimisation is a factor that may affect the commitment to a collective identity. The argument is illustrated by the case of ‘Norden’, as the inhabitants of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden call their territory. The end of the Cold War and Sweden and Finland joining Denmark in the European Union (EU) put Nordic identity under severe stress in the beginning of the 1990s. As shown, this collective identity was intensely active in the case of the Nordic Passport Union, but less so in the case of environmental negotiations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Norway International Relations 24 1 46 64 |
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Despite a general acknowledgement that knowledge about identities is essential for understanding international relations, surprisingly little has been written about what actually activates one of a state’s many identities and not another. More generally, the article suggests that situational relevance and commitment are of importance. More specifically, it is suggested that a policy area’s legitimisation is a factor that may affect the commitment to a collective identity. The argument is illustrated by the case of ‘Norden’, as the inhabitants of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden call their territory. The end of the Cold War and Sweden and Finland joining Denmark in the European Union (EU) put Nordic identity under severe stress in the beginning of the 1990s. As shown, this collective identity was intensely active in the case of the Nordic Passport Union, but less so in the case of environmental negotiations. |
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