Nordic security and defence cooperation

Abstract

This chapter examines some of the major developments in Nordic military, defence and security cooperation since the latter part of the 2000s. The Stoltenberg report contained both without making such a distinction, and it also applies to the Nordic security and defence policy debate in general. The best examples of security policy including a wide range factors of the European Union (EU) as seen in its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Security and defence policy has not always been the area of greatest cooperation between the Nordic states. The Nordic states started to discuss security and defence issues in the Nordic institutions. The Nordic countries have to pay increased attention to the end of the Cold War, which has also entailed a shift in the strength and relevance of various discourses constitutive of political space, and need to strive to locate themselves in contexts that really constitute present-day and future Europe.