Contemporary Nordic Public Policies

Part I:Overview.- An Introduction to the Nordic Region.- The Evolution of Public Policies in the Nordic Countries.- Part II: The Contributions of Political Culture and the Welfare State.- Nordic Political Culture: Democracy, Emancipative Values and the Rise of Populism.- Welfare and Democracy in the Nordic Region: A Context for Policymaking.- Part III:The Influences of Globalization and Liberalization.- How Financial Globalization Transformed the Nordic Model and Public Policy.- The Diffusion of Trust Reforms within the Nordic Countries.- Part IV:Security and Foreign Relations.- Nordic Understandings of Security: Commonalities and the End of Exceptionalism?.- Exceptionalism and Inner Diversity within Nordic Foreign Policy: The Case of the Arctic Council.- Part V: Climate Change and the Environment.- The Impact of Climate Change on the Nordics from a One Health Perspective (Ab)using the Land: Environmental and Climate Justice in the North.- Part VI:Final Observations.- Summary and Conclusions.