Do-Gooders at the End of Aid

Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment. His research focuses on the politics of epidemic preparedness and response, and particularly public-private cooperation for emergency response capacities, vaccines and digital technologies. Kristian Bjørkdahl is a postdoc fellow at the University of Oslo's Centre for Development and the Environment. His current work focuses on the idea of Nordic colonial innocence, and he also does research on science communication, pandemic communication, rhetorical history and theory.

Introduction: On the Resilience of the Scandinavian Humanitarian Brand; 1. Fantasy, Distinction, Shame: The Stickiness of the Nordic 'Good State' Brand Christopher S. Browning; 2. The Do-Gooders' Dilemma: Scandinavian Asylum and Migration Policies in the Aftermath of 2015 Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen; 3. The Nobel Savage: Norwegian Do-Goodery as Tragedy Kristian Bjørkdahl; 4. An Historical View on the Nordic 'Peace Brand': Norway and Sweden – Partners and Competitors in Peace Ada Nissen; 5. Sweden's Weapons Exports Paradox Wayne Stephen Coetzee; 6. Danish Development Cooperation: Withering Heights Lars Engberg-Pedersen and Adam Moe Fejerskov; 7. How Democracy Promotion Became a Key Aim of Sweden's Development Aid Policy Johan Karlsson Schaffer; 8. From Unconditional Solidarity to Conditional Evaluability: Competing Notions of Conditionality in Swedish Development Aid Debates Carl Marklund; 9. The Pragmatarian Style: Environmental Change, Global Health, and Gro Harlem Brundtland's Nordic Internationalism Simon Reid-Henry; 10. Global Public Goods: A Threat to Nordic Humanitarianism? Desmond McNeill.