‘British Leadership is Experienced, Cool-Headed and Predictable’: Anglo-Danish relations and the United States from the end of the Second World War to the Cold War

Mariager, Rasmus

doi:10.1080/03468755.2012.667650

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“…In this strategic environment, the central security challenge for Danish policy makers was no longer territorial survival but seeking to influence the agendas of the strong in order to improve societal resilience. 44 Whereas this new security order increased the Danish action space, it also traded Danish territorial security for ontological insecurity: What was the foreign policy identity and international role of Denmark? Danish decision makers were unsure.…”

Section: The American World Order: the End Of Small State Policy?mentioning

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Punching above their weight, but why? Explaining Denmark and Estonia in the transatlantic relationship

Wivel¹,

Crandall²

2019

J Transatl Stud

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This article asks why Denmark and Estonia have eagerly attempted to 'punch above their weight' in the transatlantic relationship since the end of the Cold War and shows how they differ in their strategies to do so. Using neoclassical realism as a theoretical point of departure, the article explains how a combination of changing constraints in the strategic environment and elite interpretations of how these changes affected national security resulted in 'super atlanticist' alliance policies in the two countries. Following this analysis, we discuss the future of super atlanticism.

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Section: The American World Order: the End Of Small State Policy?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Punching above their weight, but why? Explaining Denmark and Estonia in the transatlantic relationship

Wivel¹,

Crandall²

2019

J Transatl Stud

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“…The central argument throughout the analysis is that it is key to understand how the country historically has attempted to balance the cost of the dilemma and relate to the utility of shelter diplomacy. In the Danish case, this has traditionally been done by aligning the country’s position with larger countries in the negotiations on the direction in the integration process (Mariager, 2012; Pedersen, 2014). For instance, in the 1970s and early 1980s, Denmark often oriented itself towards the United Kingdom and France in questions related to constitutional integration (Pedersen, 2013; Petersen, 2006).…”

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Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma

Pedersen¹

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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Shelter theory has emerged as a promising but unrealized alternative to existing theories of bandwagon and hiding in the literature. It describes how small states can utilize the structural power of great powers to achieve political aims through the formation of asymmetric alliances. At present it is not clear exactly what shelter diplomacy aims to achieve, what type of costs it protects small states against and to what degree asymmetric shelters are useful when the preferences between the small state and the shelter partner widen. The article addresses these gaps. It develops a realist inspired model of shelter diplomacy that specifies when, how and with what effects small states can utilize the structural powers of great powers. It demonstrates how shelter diplomacy can help small states balance the costs of abandonment and entrapment in the alliance dilemma through construction of both asymmetric and symmetric shelters. The main contributions are to bring shelter diplomacy into the International Relations mainstream literature and develop a new theoretical middle position between the more well-described bandwagon and hiding strategies. The model is applied to a Danish case that demonstrates how small states have utilized and adopted dynamic shelter strategies in the European integration process.

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“…i Napoleonskrigene, hvor det britiske bombardement af København i 1807 førte til betydelige tab og ødelaeggelser, og under Anden Verdenskrig, hvor den danske modstandsbevaegelse sendte radio fra London, og britiske tropper befriede Danmark fra tysk besaettelse i 1945. Efter krigen spillede Storbritannien en aktiv rolle i forbindelse med Danmarks optagelse i FN, og Danmark søgte i de følgende år både politisk, økonomisk og militaert naere relationer til Storbritannien, ligesom man naerede ønske om et britisk lederskab i Europa ( Mariager 2012 Danmarks og Storbritanniens strategier til at håndtere deres placering i Europas geografiske og politiske margin har typisk taget udgangspunkt i landenes traditioner for handel og søfart kombineret med en eksplicitering af den geopolitiske placerings muligheder (faktiske eller forestillede) for brobygning mellem Europa og USA (Storbritannien) og Europa og Norden (Danmark). Samtidig har begge lande positioneret sig som forskellige fra og bedre end resten af Europa i kraft af, hvad de har opfattet som distinkte saertraek ved deres statsbygning og politiske kultur som liberal stormagt (Storbritannien) og nordisk velfaerdsstat (Danmark).…”

Section: Danmark Og Storbritannien: De Utilpassede Og Ubekvemme Europunclassified

Danmark efter Brexit: Business as usual eller en ny begyndelse for dansk europapolitik?

Sørensen

Wivel²

2017

Internasjonal Politikk

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ResuméDen britiske beslutning om udmeldelse af EU har potentielt alvorlige konsekvenser for Danmark. Danmark og Storbritannien har historisk en naer samarbejdsrelation, og begge lande har haft en tilgang til den europaeiske integrationsproces, hvor de har håndteret deres position i udkanten af Europa -geografisk og politisk -ved at fremhaeve karakteristika ved deres samfund, som de anså for både anderledes og bedre end resten af Europa. Brexit forstaerker marginaliseringen af Danmark i EU, og samtidig er de danske politiske partier i dag mere EU-skeptiske end tidligere. Danske politiske beslutningstagere er bevidste om risikoen for marginalisering af et lille land ude af takt med de toneangivende aktører i EU, men samtidig bundet af det paradoks, at den danske befolkning både er begejstret for EU-medlemskab og skeptiske overfor en taettere tilknytning til kernen. For at imødegå de negative konsekvenser af Brexit søger Danmark at skabe nye alliancer med andre små intergovernmentalistiske og atlantisk orienterede EU-medlemslande og at tiltraekke arbejdspladser og kapital, der forlader Storbritannien på grund af udmeldelsen.

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‘British Leadership is Experienced, Cool-Headed and Predictable’: Anglo-Danish relations and the United States from the end of the Second World War to the Cold War

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Punching above their weight, but why? Explaining Denmark and Estonia in the transatlantic relationship

Punching above their weight, but why? Explaining Denmark and Estonia in the transatlantic relationship

Small states shelter diplomacy: Balancing costs of entrapment and abandonment in the alliance dilemma

Danmark efter Brexit: Business as usual eller en ny begyndelse for dansk europapolitik?

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