The Nordic Peace and Northeast Asia: Approaches, Solutions, and Principles of Conflict Transformation [Hardcover]

This book offers a new analysis of the Nordic Peace after its onset in 1814, the year that marks the end to centuries of warfare between the Nordic countries, and the applicability of the Nordic solutions and principles for North East Asian conflicts. Through an analysis of three key post-1814 conflicts that the Nordic region resolved peacefully - the Union of Norway and Sweden (1814-1905), the issue on the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein between Denmark and Germany (1864-1920 & 1955), and the Aaland Islands problem between Finland and Sweden (1809-1922), the book examines how the solutions that underlie the Nordic Peace transcended causes for conflict, and if there is universal potential in the Nordic solutions for similar conflicts in North East Asia

1. Preface to the Introduction.- 2. Introduction.- 3.The Nordic Security Community.- 4. The Nordic Peace: Current State and a Belligerent Background.- 5. Case One: Norway-Sweden  Unification, Union, Disunion, and the legacy of the Peace of Kiel 1814-1905.-     6. Case Two: Denmark-Germany  the Schleswig-Holstein Issue: Two Wars, a Loss of Territory, Irredentism, Plebiscite, the Redrawing of a Border, and Minority Rights 1864-1920 (& 1955).- 7. Case Three: Finland-Sweden  The Territorial and the Irredentist Predicament of the ?land Islands 1809-1921.- 8. Analysis and Discussion of the Nordic Peace.- 9. Nordic Principles as Peace Mechanisms.- 10. Nordic Solutions  Relevance for Japan and Northeast Asia.-11. Closing Remarks.

Gunnar Rekvig conducts research at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and holds a Ph.D. in International and Regional Studies from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the Deputy Director for the GlobalArctic project at the Geneva Center for Security Policy, served as an associate professor of Northern Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and was the 2019-2021 Nansen Professor at the Unil&