ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters have shown that all the Nordic states individually meet the requirements for success in post-Cold War peace operations, so the potential for the establishment of an effective new model clearly exists. This chapter determines whether this potential can be realized. To be effective, a new model must have the relevant civilian and military capacity available for rapid deployment, an institutional capacity for joint rapid strategic decision making and planning, and finally a common strategic culture enabling the Nordics to agree when, how and where their crisis management capacities should be used.2
