EU - Nordic Relations - Call for Papers
Danish Association for European Studies (also known as Dansk Europaforsknings Selskab, DSE) call for papers for the Inaugural Conference 2023 of NEAS held in Norway.
The first newsletter of the Danish Association for European Studies (also known as Dansk Europaforsknings Selskab, DSE) has been launched (link her). It includes a call for papers for the Inaugural Conference 2023 of NEAS (Nordic Association for European Studies). The Conference will be hosted at University of South-Eastern Norway, School of Business, Campus Drammen.
Information about the conference and submission details:
NAES conference: 1 November 2023 - 2 November 2023.
Deadline for submission: 16 June 2023.
Acceptance information: 10 July 2023.
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The organisers write:
EU - Nordic Relations - Call for Papers
Nordic Association for European Studies
Inaugural Conference 2023
The last decade, the EU has been faced with a series of crises that required prompt responses, in areas that the EU institutions did not have the necessary competences and instruments to respond (economic and health policy areas; more recently foreign policy and defence).
As the emerging crises and challenges could not only be addressed internally in the EU, the EU sought out collaborations with other organisations and non-EU neighbouring states and regions which affected EU relations to the rest of the world.
Due to geographic, socio-political and economic connections, EU-Nordic relations have developed significantly over time. The Nordic region includes both EU member and non-EU member states. These countries represent welfare states with corporatist governance structures, which characterise their responses to emerging challenges (e.g. environmental and social policy issues). However, there are important differences among the Nordic EU member countries, for example pertaining to Internal Market opt-outs, aspects of immigration and home affairs aspects, the Eurozone, and NATO membership. Furthermore, being direct neighbours with Russia some of the Nordic countries face new challenges following the war in Ukraine as demonstrated by their NATO membership.
The Nordic Association for European Studies conference aims to understand, theorise and analyse these special EU-Nordic relations from different disciplines and perspectives, economics, politics, sociology, history, and law, and address some of the following questions:
- How does the diverse EU-status of the Nordic countries affect EU-Nordic relations?
- How has the Nordic welfare state operated within the EU?
- How have EU-Nordic relations been affected by the present poly-crises, and the transfer of new competences from the member states of the EU, to EU institutions?
- How has the war in Ukraine affected EU-Nordic relations?
- How do EU-Nordic relations address conflicts about the Arctic?
- Is there a South-North divide in the EU?
The conference invites scholars working on EU-Nordic relations to submit panels and papers and participate in inter-disciplinary discussions.
The Conference will be hosted at University of South-Eastern Norway, School of Business, Campus Drammen, which can be reached by a direct train from Oslo Gardermoen Airport.