Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2013

Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook is about Danish foreign policy and Denmark’s role in a global and regional context.

This year’s volume presents the official outline of Denmark’s foreign policy in 2012 by Claus Grube, Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Besides that

• Ravinder Kaur contributes with the first academic inquiry into the causes of the Danish-Indian diplomatic deadlock in the extradition case concerning Niels Holck (the prime accused in the Purulia arms drop case).
• Mette Skak addresses the role of the emerging BRICS powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in Danish foreign policy and offers her policy recommendations.
• Hans Branner shifts to a diachronic perspective. In his article about Denmark ‘between Venus and Mars’ he stresses elements of continuity in Danish foreign policy history; activism is not solely a post-Cold War phenomenon.
• Derek Beach turns to the scene of the current European economic crisis, analysing and interpreting the Fiscal Compact agreed during the Danish EU Presidency.

The authors of the scholarly articles represent only themselves and their academic expertise.

The articles are abstracted in English and Danish at the outset of chapter one.

After the articles follows a selection of official documents considered to be characteristic of Danish foreign policy 2012. This is supplemented by essential statistics as well as some of the most relevant polls on the attitudes of the Danes to key foreign policy questions. Finally, a bibliography offers a limited selection of scholarly books, articles, and chapters published in English in 2012 within the field covered by the yearbook.

Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook is published once a year.