ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . 7

INTRODUCTION: 'NORDIC DEMOCRACY' IN A WORLD OF TENSIONS . . 9
'NORDIC DEMOCRACY' IN 1935 - On the Finnish and Swedish Rhetoric of Democracy . . 37
WHY 'NORDIC DEMOCRACY"? - The Scandinavian Value Nihilists and the Crisis of Democracy . . 83 
SHARING VALUES AND SHAPING VALUES - Sweden, 'Nordic Democracy' and the American Crisis of Democracy . . 114
KEEPING UP THE MORALE - Constructions of 'Nordic Democracy' during World War II . . 141
REFORMISM AND 'NORDIC DEMOCRACY' - A Journey in Danish Political Thought . . 165
SCANDINAVIANS, NORDIC CO-OPERATION, AND 'NORDIC DEMOCRACY' . . 179
VISITING NORDIC MODERNITY AROUND 1900 - Spanish Images . . 194
THE LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REFORMIST THOUGHT . . 208
FROM AGRARIAN REPUBLICANISM TO THE POLITICS OF NEUTRALITY - Urho Kekkonen and "Nordic Democracy' in Finnish Cold-War Politics . . 238
PARLIAMENTARIAN DEMOCRACY GOING GLOBAL - The Fading Nordic Model . . 262

CONTRIBUTORS . . 290
INDEX . . 292