Nordic Studies in a Global Context
About the Book Series
This new book series aims to open up more empirical, critical and reflective perspectives on the Nordic cultures, institutions, legal frameworks and "models" in a global and comparative context and to create a bridge between humanistic Nordic studies and the comparative and IR-oriented social sciences and law programmes. It looks to encourage methodologically driven and critical reflection on the nature, construction and use of Nordic traditions, models, institutions, laws, discourses and images.
The series welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines across the social sciences, law and humanities. Works can be located within a single discipline but should have some relevance beyond; contributions with a policy dimension are also welcome.
If you have an idea for a new book in Nordic Studies in a Global Context, please send a written proposal to the Series Editors:
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo [email protected]
Cathie Jo Martin, Professor of Political Science, Boston University [email protected]
Johan Strang, Professor, University of Helsinki [email protected]
For guidance on how to structure your proposal, please visit:
https://www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/publishing-guidelines
Nordic Transatlantic Crossings: Emigration, Interaction and Democracy 1825–1945
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Hemstad, Terje Rasmussen
November 19, 2025
Adopting a broad and transnational Nordic approach, this book highlights the interconnected, transatlantic and reciprocal processes of migration and democracy with Nordic crossings. It illuminates the connections, challenges and the broader democratic context, of transatlantic crossings of various ...
Associative Governance in Scandinavia: Organizing Societies by “Combining Together”
1st Edition
Edited
By Anker Brink Lund, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Søren Christensen
June 27, 2025
This edited volume explores a variety of aspects of associative governance, providing detailed case studies of associations and associational governance in Scandinavia. Theoretically developing a concept and approach of associative governance, the book sheds light on a dynamic way of perceiving ...
Nordic Neoliberalisms: Perspectives on Economic, Social and Cultural Change in the Nordics after 1970
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenny Andersson, Chris Howell
April 08, 2025
Drawing on a cross-disciplinary perspective from history and social science, this book examines what is common to neoliberalism, and where it differs, in four Nordic countries across four key sectors of liberalization: capital markets, labor markets, industrial relations and the welfare state. ...
Cooperation and Confrontation in Nordic Civil Societies since 1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Sunniva Engh, Ruth Hemstad, Mads Mordhorst
December 05, 2024
This book examines Nordic civil societies from 1800 until today, by studying the roles of voluntary action and associations in the Nordic region and beyond. Through its diverse and historically informed analyses of civil society, traditionally held to be a vital and integrated part of the ...
Nordic Peace in Question: A Region of and for Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher S. Browning, Marko Lehti, Johan Strang
July 18, 2024
This book explores historically and theoretically Nordic peace as a marker of identification, ontological (in)security and regional branding. It emphasizes how conceptions of Nordic peace have been translated into policy practices and how it has maintained its relevance over time. The book ...
Nordic Criminal Justice in a Global Context: Practices and Promotion of Exceptionalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikkel Jarle Christensen, Kjersti Lohne, Magnus Hörnqvist
May 27, 2024
This book critically investigates Nordic criminal justice as a global role model. Not taking this role for granted, the chapters of the book analyze how Nordic approaches to criminal justice were folded into global contexts, and how patterns of promotion were built around perceptions that these ...
Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms: A Reappraisal and Comparison, 1840–1940
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Hemstad, Peter Stadius
June 30, 2023
This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe. An actor- and practice-oriented approach is applied at the expense of ...
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
1st Edition
Edited
By Haldor Byrkjeflot, Lars Mjøset, Mads Mordhorst, Klaus Petersen
May 31, 2023
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as "Nordic". It addresses related paradoxes as well as patterns of circulation, claims ...