Do-Gooders at the End of Aid

Scandinavian countries are considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book argues that policymakers can and do capitalize on this reputation to legitimize policy interventions and ideas.vThis title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Introduction: On the Resilience of the Scandinavian Humanitarian Brand; 1. Fantasy, Distinction, Shame: The Stickiness of the Nordic 'Good State' Brand Christopher S. Browning; 2. The Do-Gooders' Dilemma: Scandinavian Asylum and Migration Policies in the Aftermath of 2015 Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; 3. The Nobel Savage: Norwegian Do-Goodery as Tragedy Kristian Bjørkdahl; 4. An Historical View on the Nordic 'Peace Brand': Norway and Sweden - Partners and Competitors in Peace Ada Nissen; 5. Sweden's Weapons Exports Paradox Wayne Stephen Coetzee; 6. Danish Development Cooperation: Withering Heights Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Moe Fejerskov; 7. How Democracy Promotion Became a Key Aim of Sweden's Development Aid Policy Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 8. From Unconditional Solidarity to Conditional Evaluability: Competing Notions of Conditionality in Swedish Development Aid Debates Carl Marklund; 9. The Pragmatarian Style: Environmental Change, Global Health, and Gro Harlem Brundtland's Nordic Internationalism Simon Reid-Henry; 10. Global Public Goods: A Threat to Nordic Humanitarianism? Desmond McNeill.