Sveinn M Jóhannesson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4602949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sveinn M Jóhannesson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sveinn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jóhannesson |
| SIGNATURE | JÓHANNESSON S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8041-5481 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teutonic Horizons
This article makes the case for studying fin de siècle geopolitical thought from the margins—at the Nordic periphery. While recent scholarship in the history of international thought has revisited canonical figures or turned to non-Western contexts, the Nordic margins of Europe have remained largely unexplored. This article addresses that lacuna by examining the geopolitical thought of Jón Ólafsson, an Icelandic journalist, transatlantic migrant …
The Icelander in the Angloworld
This article recovers the international thought of Jón Ólafsson—an Icelandic journalist, transatlantic migrant, and settler colonialist—to illuminate how visions of world order were articulated from the Northern European periphery at the fin de siècle . While scholars have emphasized the rise of Anglo-Saxonist ideas—particularly the notion of a racial-imperial union between the United States and Britain—as central to late nineteenth-century reima…
Engineering the Economy through Austerity
This essay explores how Iceland, a newly independent state on the northern European periphery, responded to the international agenda for post-war stabilisation set out by economic experts after the turmoil of the First World War. It shows that the government of the so-called Austerity Alliance, led by Jón Þorláksson, adopted austerity policies devised at the international financial conferences in Brussels (1920) and Genoa (1922). To please extern…
Securing the State
At a session of the Confederation Congress on February 19, 1787, James Madison rose to reflect on the federal government's failed attempts to mobilize an armed force to quell the Massachusetts Regulation, commonly known as Shays's Rebellion. The uprising, led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, had begun in August 1786 and was wreaking havoc throughout central and western Massachusetts and neighboring states. After a series of frustrat…
Engineering the Economy through Austerity
This essay explores how Iceland, a newly independent state on the northern European periphery, responded to the international agenda for post-war stabilisation set out by economic experts after the turmoil of the First World War. It shows that the government of the so-called Austerity Alliance, led by Jón Þorláksson, adopted austerity policies devised at the international financial conferences in Brussels (1920) and Genoa (1922). To please extern…
Securing the State
At a session of the Confederation Congress on February 19, 1787, James Madison rose to reflect on the federal government's failed attempts to mobilize an armed force to quell the Massachusetts Regulation, commonly known as Shays's Rebellion. The uprising, led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, had begun in August 1786 and was wreaking havoc throughout central and western Massachusetts and neighboring states. After a series of frustrat…
Engineering the Economy through Austerity
This essay explores how Iceland, a newly independent state on the northern European periphery, responded to the international agenda for post-war stabilisation set out by economic experts after the turmoil of the First World War. It shows that the government of the so-called Austerity Alliance, led by Jón Þorláksson, adopted austerity policies devised at the international financial conferences in Brussels (1920) and Genoa (1922). To please extern…
Teutonic Horizons
This article makes the case for studying fin de siècle geopolitical thought from the margins—at the Nordic periphery. While recent scholarship in the history of international thought has revisited canonical figures or turned to non-Western contexts, the Nordic margins of Europe have remained largely unexplored. This article addresses that lacuna by examining the geopolitical thought of Jón Ólafsson, an Icelandic journalist, transatlantic migrant …
The Icelander in the Angloworld
This article recovers the international thought of Jón Ólafsson—an Icelandic journalist, transatlantic migrant, and settler colonialist—to illuminate how visions of world order were articulated from the Northern European periphery at the fin de siècle . While scholars have emphasized the rise of Anglo-Saxonist ideas—particularly the notion of a racial-imperial union between the United States and Britain—as central to late nineteenth-century reima…
European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies (2 works) · Globalization and political ideologies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Atlantic World (1 work) · Austerity (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Economic history (1 work)