Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2011

This volume of Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook presents five articles on themes which have been crucial to Danish foreign relations in 2010:
 

Denmark’s foreign policy 2010

Permanent Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Claus Grube, provides an official outline of Denmark’s 2010 foreign policy in the past year.
 

Danish-Chinese relations

Clemens Stubbe Østergaard analyses the continuity and fluctuations in Danish-Chinese relations over the years.
 

Afghanistan – Danes in the British-led brigade

Peter Viggo Jakobsen and Peter Dahl Thruelsen look to Afghanistan and in particular to the presence of the Danish contingent within a British-led brigade in the Helmand province and what this has meant for operational effectiveness.
 

The financial crisis

Martin Carstensen criticizes the Danish government for not addressing the root causes of the Danish version of the financial crisis. According to the author, the liberalised loan market that created a historically unprecedented bubble in the housing market, has increased the dependence of Danish banks on the transnational money markets.
 

The notion of ‘development’ in the 2010 strategy for Danish development cooperation

Göran Hydén scrutinizes the 2010 Strategy Document on Danish Development Cooperation, with a view to how the notion of ‘development’ is understood and operationalized.

In addition the book contains
 

Official documents

A selection of official documents, which are considered to be pioneering or characteristic of Danish foreign policy during 2010.
 

Statistics

Essential statistics on Danish foreign policy as well as some of the most relevant opinion polls on the attitude of the Danish population on key foreign policy questions are included.
 

Bibliography

A bibliography with a limited selection of scholarly books, articles, and chapters published in 2010 in English within the focus of the yearbook.
The authors of the four scholarly articles represent only themselves and their academic expertise.

Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook is published once a year.