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Ten Years On: Reassessing the Stoltenberg Report on Nordic Cooperation

Written by

Kristin Haugevik
Research Professor
Ulf Sverdrup
Former Director
Karsten Friis
Research Professor
Lars Gjesvik
Senior Research Fellow
Björn Fägersten
Pia Hansson
Calle Håkansson
Tuomas Iso-Markku
Hans Mouritzen
Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir
Auður Birna Stefánsdóttir
Øyvind Svendsen

Ed.

Kristin Haugevik
Research Professor
Ulf Sverdrup
Former Director

Summary:

Ten years ago, the report ‘Nordic cooperation on foreign and security policy’ was presented to the Nordic foreign ministers at an extraordinary meeting in Oslo, Norway. Penned and fronted by Norway’s former foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, the report proposed thirteen ways in which Nordic cooperation in the foreign and security domain could be formalized and strengthened. Generally well-received in the Nordic capitals, today, the report is regularly referred to in assessments of Nordic foreign and security cooperation, or when Nordic heads of government meet in public to discuss past and future accomplishments.

Written by

Kristin Haugevik
Research Professor
Ulf Sverdrup
Former Director
Karsten Friis
Research Professor
Lars Gjesvik
Senior Research Fellow
Björn Fägersten
Pia Hansson
Calle Håkansson
Tuomas Iso-Markku
Hans Mouritzen
Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir
Auður Birna Stefánsdóttir
Øyvind Svendsen

Ed.

Kristin Haugevik
Research Professor
Ulf Sverdrup
Former Director