Iceland and European Integration: On the Edge (Europe and the Nation State)

✍ Scribed by Baldur Thorhallsson

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 233
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Why has Iceland not sought membership of the European Union?This unique volume uses the case study of Iceland - the only Nordic state to have never applied for EU membership - to explore the complex attitudes of small states to European intergration and provide a new theoretical approach for understanding such relationships.The contributors explain why the Icelandic political elite has been relunctant to participate in European integration. In this context, they analyse the influence that Iceland's special relationship with the US and the fisheries sector have had on their dealings with the EU. Also considered are 'new' variables, such as national administrative characteristics and particular features of the domestic arena of the political elite, as well as the elite's perception of international relations and its political discourse concerning independence and sovereignty.Iceland and European Integration will appeal to all those interested in European integration and the international relations of small states

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
List of abbreviations......Page 17
Approaching the question: domestic background and conceptual framework......Page 18
The first steps: Iceland's policy on European integration from the foundation of the republic to 1972......Page 38
A controversial step: membership of the EEA......Page 55
Deeply involved in the European project: membership of Schengen......Page 67
Partial engagement: a practical solution......Page 78
Life is first and foremost saltfish......Page 84
The special relationship between Iceland and the United States of America......Page 120
Discussing Europe: Icelandic nationalism and European integration......Page 145
The Euro-sceptical political elite......Page 162
Shackled by smallness: a weak administration as a determinant of policy choice......Page 178
Towards a new theoretical approach......Page 202
Index......Page 226

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