Danish Reactions to German Occupation

For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations, and tracing the country’s responses to successive crises and wars in the region, Danish Reactions to German Occupation brings a full overview of the occupation to an English-speaking audience. Holbraad carefully dissects the motivations and ideologies driving conduct during the occupation, and his authoritative coverage of the preceding century provides a crucial link to understanding the forces behind Danish foreign policy divisions. Analysing the conduct of a traumatised and strategically exposed small state bordering on an aggressive great power, the book traces a development from reluctant cooperation to active resistance. In doing so, Holbraad surveys and examines the subsequent, and not yet quite finished, debate among Danish historians about this contested period, which takes place between those siding with the resistance and those more inclined to justify limited cooperation with the occupiers – and who sometimes even condone various acts of collaboratio

El papel de las potencias medias en la política internacional

The role of countries that are neither big nor small in international politics is still a comparatively neglected subject. The role of the middle powers can be examined according to two basic systems of international politics: the dualistic and the multiple. In a cold war situation, the middle powers, together with most of the other members of the state system, face two great dangers: becoming victims of the central rivalry and being objects of usurpation and even being eaten up by one of them. The concern of the middle powers, in the face of such a challenge, must be centered on the problem that means avoiding being reduced to the category of weak and powerless nations.El papel que desempeñan los países que no son grandes ni pequeños en la política internacional es todavía un tema comparativamente descuidado. El papel de las potencias medias puede ser examinado de acuerdo con dos sistemas básicos de la política internacional: el dualístico y el múltiple. En una situación de guerra fría, las potencias medias, conjuntamente con la mayoría de los otros miembros del sistema de Estados, enfrentan dos grandes peligros: convertirse en víctimas de la rivalidad central y ser objetos de usurpación e incluso ser devoradas por uno de ellos. La preocupación de las potencias medias, frente a dicho desafío, tiene que estar centrada en el problema que significa evitar ser reducidas a la categoría de naciones débiles e impotentes

Danish Reactions to German Occupation

For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations, and tracing the country’s responses to successive crises and wars in the region, Danish Reactions to German Occupation brings a full overview of the occupation to an English-speaking audience. Holbraad carefully dissects the motivations and ideologies driving conduct during the occupation, and his authoritative coverage of the preceding century provides a crucial link to understanding the forces behind Danish foreign policy divisions. Analysing the conduct of a traumatised and strategically exposed small state bordering on an aggressive great power, the book traces a development from reluctant cooperation to active resistance. In doing so, Holbraad surveys and examines the subsequent, and not yet quite finished, debate among Danish historians about this contested period, which takes place between those siding with the resistance and those more inclined to justify limited cooperation with the occupiers – and who sometimes even condone various acts of collaboratio

Nation, region and context: studies in peace and war in honour of Professor T.B. Millar

This volume of essays is focused round the subjects on which the late Tom Millar, the founder of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, promoted Australian research. The first half of the book focuses on immediate Australian and regional issues. Desmond Ball has written an authoritative account of Australia's strategy for security engagement in Asia, Paul Dibb on the evolution and future of Australian defence policy, Coral Bell on the Australian involvement in strategic enquiry since 1945, Michael Leifer on the extension of ASEAN's model of regional security, J.L. Richardson on real dangers in the Asia-Pacific region, and Alan Burnett on the Anzac connection. The second half of the book deals with the international and intellectual context within which Australia must live, and governments must act. Robert O'Neill contributes a masterly essay on a world without superpowers, Carsten Holbraad on peace and war in conservative internationalist thought, John Weltman on American internationalist traditions, John Groom on the evolution of the British Commonwealth, and Phillip Greville on the treatment of prisoners of war. The essays are thus a valuable up-to-date guide to current strategic preoccupations in Australia, as well as to the way policy has been influenced and formulated in the past