The EU as a Security Provider: Changing Foreign Policy Roles Amongst Nordic EU Member States
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2025

Abstract This article addresses the Nordic European Union (EU) member states' changing national role conceptions prompted by concerns about a weakening international rules‐based order, a flagging transatlantic commitment and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The heightened threat perceptions in northern Europe resulted not only in a renewed relevance of and support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Denmark, Finland and Sweden but also in an emerging appreciation of the EU as a sec