ABSTRACT
Security has a certain standing in the case of the Nordic countries as well, and there are occasionally frictions in intra-Nordic relations, too. Yet it is now rather obvious that the region stands out as a non-war community. Powerful political practices have been at work within the region allowing for a settling of differences short of war. The Nordic countries have been able to settle their differences short of war, and more generally the region has had features of not fully abiding by the rules of power politics. Norden has lost much of its specificity and bordered quality, and this has also been reflected in scholarly works. Increasingly also the Nordics have tried to sort out their own legacy. The problem of security in the ordinary statist and military sense has simply evaporated, and what was left in terms of extra-Nordic relations has been handed over to the Nordic states to handle.
