Problems of Nordic Integration

Nordic integration has a long if chequered history.1 For, while the Nordic countries form a region, culturally, historically, geographically, and linguistically, the process of integration has been neither goal-oriented nor continuous because of the differing political, security, and economic interests of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The reasons for these differences are found in the geographic location of the four countries. Finland at the eastern edge of the region forms the easternmost outpost of Western not only Nordic culture. Denmark, at the southernmost end of the region, is geomorphologically an extension of the Great North German Plain at the mouth of the Baltic; for centuries a crossroads for east-west trade routes and in the nine

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