Economic nationalism and maritime policy in Norway
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Date
2006Source Title
Cooperation and Conflict : Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association
Print ISSN
0010-8367
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd.
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
177 - 201
Language
English
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Abstract
While celebrating recent efforts to redefine ‘economic nationalism’ by
placing nationalism and national identity — rather than the state or
illiberal economic policies — at its core, this article takes issue with the
tendency to provide an unnecessarily narrow specification of a new
research agenda on economic nationalism. More specifically, it argues
that the agenda should concern not merely how national identities and
nationalism influence economic policies and processes, but also how the
latter can influence the former. An argument is also made for this twoway relationship to be conceived in constitutive terms, and a study of
the efforts to develop a maritime policy in Norway in the mid-1990s is
presented to show the usefulness of this reformulated research agenda
on economic nationalism.