ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly reviews the foreign policies of the four Nordic countries from the Cold War period to today, focusing on four elements: security, foreign policy behaviour, foreign policy vision (i.e. ‘what values do we stand for in our foreign policy?’) and, finally, important coalition actors (for instance, the US, NATO and the EU). The discussion will then compare Danish defence policy with that of the other three Nordic countries, and examine the engagement of all four nations in recent peace operations. Finally, the chapter will examine four reasons for the recent military activism of Denmark.
