TY - CHAP
T1 - As Awkward as They Need to Be
T2 - Denmark's Pragmatic Activist Approach to Europe
AU - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - What characterizes Denmark's policy towards EU integration? This chapter argues that Danish EU policy may be understood thorough the analytical prism of awkwardness. The chapter makes three contributions towards understanding Danish awkwardness. First, the chapter unpacks the characteristics of Danish awkwardness and explain how it has developed since the debate over whether or not to seek membership in the early 1970s. Second, the chapter discusses how Danish state identity, rooted in the context of deep societal changes in Danish society in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the first part of the twentieth century has created a particular action space for Denmark’s engagement with the European integration project. Third, the chapter discusses Denmark’s strategies for managing awkwardness in the European Union.
AB - What characterizes Denmark's policy towards EU integration? This chapter argues that Danish EU policy may be understood thorough the analytical prism of awkwardness. The chapter makes three contributions towards understanding Danish awkwardness. First, the chapter unpacks the characteristics of Danish awkwardness and explain how it has developed since the debate over whether or not to seek membership in the early 1970s. Second, the chapter discusses how Danish state identity, rooted in the context of deep societal changes in Danish society in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the first part of the twentieth century has created a particular action space for Denmark’s engagement with the European integration project. Third, the chapter discusses Denmark’s strategies for managing awkwardness in the European Union.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Denmark
KW - Danish EU policy
KW - Danish European policy
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - Small state strategy
KW - nordic exceptionalism
KW - Scandinavian politics
KW - Danish EU policy
KW - Danish European policy
KW - nordic exceptionalism
KW - Scandinavian politics
KW - Danish foreign policy
KW - Small state strategy
KW - Denmark
KW - Euroscepticism
KW - Welfare State
KW - Europeanization
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9783319575612
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-57562-9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-57562-9
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783319575612
T3 - Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
SP - 13
EP - 34
BT - Nordic States and European Integration
A2 - Stegmann McCallion, Malin
A2 - Brianson, Alex
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -