The Reluctant Europeans: The Attitudes of the Nordic Countries towards European Integration 9780773593381

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
1. The Integration of Europe
2. The Nordic Countries and European Integration
CHAPTER 2. SECURITY
1. The Problem of Security
2. The Calculations of Security: 1949-1975
2.1 The Regional Level
2.2 The European Level
2.3 The Systemic Level
3. The Policies of Security
3.1 Finland
3.2 Denmark and Norway
3.3 Sweden
CHAPTER 3. THE STRUCTURE OF TRADE
1. Exports and Imports of the Nordic Region
2. Denmark
3. Norway
4. Sweden
5. Finland
CHAPTER 4. EUROPE VERSUS NORDEN
1. The Necessity of Europe
2. The Historical Dimensions of Scandinavianism
3. Functional Nordic Cooperation: the Nordic Common Market Proposal
4. Nordic Decision Making: Consensualism of the Lowest Common Denominater
5. The NORDEK Chimera
CHAPTER 5. THE PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE: FREE TRADE
1. Pragmatic Idealism
2. The WFTA Negotiations: Conflict of Pragmatics
2.1 The Central Actors: the British and the French
2.2 The Peripherals: the Nordics
2.2.1 The Danish Record
2.2.2 The Norwegian Position
2.2.3 The Swedish Position
2.2.4 External Unity; Internal Disunity
CHAPTER 6. EFTA - THE PRAGMATIC EPILOGUE
CHAPTER 7. DENMARK: THE ANXIOUS EUROPEAN
1. Foreign Policy
2. The Course of Market Policy
2.1 The Decision to Apply for Membership of the EEC
2.2 The Negotiations
2.3 The Intermission: Diversions
2.4 The Final Round
3. The Clash of Interests
CHAPTER 8. NORWAY: THE HESITANT EUROPEAN
1. Foreign Policy and Economics
2. Market Policy
3. Constitutional Amendment
4. The 1962 EEC Debate
5. In Waiting
6. The Third Application
7. The Referendum
7.1 Political Culture
7.2 Partisan Politics: The Course of Argument
7.3 The Elite-Mass Gap
CHAPTER 9. THE POLITICS OF THE ECONOMICS OF NEUTRALITY
1. Sweden: The Politics of Independence
1.1 The Demands of the Credibility of Neutrality
1.2 The Constraints of Neutrality and Policy-Making
1.3 The Constraints of Neutrality and the Economy
1.4 The course of Market Policy: 1961-1962: From Division to Consensus
1.5 From Second Application to Accession to Trade Pact: Increasing the Consensus
2. Finland: the Politics of Sovereignty
3. The Political and Psychological Requirements of Swedish and Finnish Neutrality
CHAPTER 10. A SUMMING-UP
APPENDIXES
I Table I Exports as a Percentage of GDP
Table 2 (a) All Nordic Countries: Exports: Value by region; percentage share by region; percentage changes by region 1950 to 1970
(b) All Nordic Countries: Imports: Value by region; percentage share by region; percentage changes by region 1950 to 1970
Table 3 (a) DENMARK: EXPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
(b) DENMARK: IMPORTS: Value by region, percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
Table 4 (a) NORWAY: EXPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
(b) NORWAY: IMPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
Table 5 (a) SWEDEN: EXPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
(b) SWEDEN: IMPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
Table 6 (a) FINLAND: EXPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
(b) FINLAND: IMPORTS: Value by region; percentage distribution by region; percentage change by region 1950 to 1970
II Resolution adopted at the Ministerial meeting of the Seven in Stockholm; 19th - 20th November, 1959
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. GENERAL
2. DENMARK
3. FINLAND
4. NORWAY
5. SWEDEN
INDEX OF PERSONS
SUBJECT INDEX