Jean Monnet Module

on

‘Understanding European Integration

through the Regional Lens’

Centre for European Studies,

School of International Studies

Jawaharlal Nehru University

&

Nordic Centre in India

Organises

THE NORDIC SUMMER SCHOOL

April 19-23, 2021

Jean Monnet Module

on

‘Understanding European Integration

through the Regional Lens’

Centre for European Studies,

School of International Studies

Jawaharlal Nehru University

&

Nordic Centre in India

Organises

THE NORDIC SUMMER SCHOOL

April 19-23, 2021

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The Jean Monnet Module on ‘Understanding European Integration

through the Regional Lens’, Centre for European Studies, School of

International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University & Nordic in Centre

India are organizing ‘The Nordic Summer School’, April 19-23,

2021. This is the first Summer School on the Nordics being organized in

India. The Centre for European Studies has been organizing conferences

and roundtables on the Nordics since 2014. The Centre offers a course on

the Nordics for its doctoral research scholars and also has introduced a

Nordic component in the Maters level course offered by the Centre. This

focus on the Nordics has resulted in growing interest of students and some

of them have opted to work on the Nordics for their doctoral research. The

Centre’s fruitful collaboration with University of Agder, Norway has

contributed immensely in sustaining interest on the Nordics. The Nordic

Centre in India has also partnered us in many of our events. The last

Centre event in collaboration with Nordic Centre was an international

conference on ‘India & the Nordics: Building Synergies and Deepening

Ties’ on19 November 2019. For the Nordic Centre collaboration with JNU

for this specific endeavour is a continuing step towards their larger goal of

introducing and delivering Nordic themes to an Indian student audience

in cooperation with their member universities.

For the past one year our lives have been critically impacted because of

the pandemic and academic learning has had its share of disruption.

However, the year has also been one of resilience as people in all walks of

life adjusted and attempted to carry forward. In the academic world

webinar, on-line classes have been the way to continue learning. This

Summer School is an extension of that exercise. The idea is to cater to the

growing interest of Masters and doctoral students at our university and to

create and increase knowledge on the Nordic across other universities.

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The programme will give the attendees a comprehensive overview of the

Nordic politics/economy/society/ foreign policy. Important issues like

climate change and environment, energy security will also be discussed.

The one-week programme in an online mode will give students a unique

opportunity to learn and interact with the faculty of various NCI member

universities across the Nordic region who will be delivering the lectures.

The objective is to create, deepen and sustain interest of young

researchers on the Nordic as a step towards encouraging research on the

region and eventually creating a pool of region or country specific Indian

experts on the Nordic.

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Programme

Schedule To Be Finalised

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NORDIC FOREIGN POLICY

Anders Wivel

Anders Wivel is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political

Science, University of Copenhagen, where he also serves a Director of the Centre for

Advanced Security Theory (CAST). From 2017 to 2019, he served as Chief Investigator

and Deputy Head of Research at the Independent Inquiry of Danish Military

Engagement in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Professor Wivel’s research explores how

power politics is being transformed in the Euro-Atlantic area and how this

transformation affects both the challenges and opportunities of small states. He has

published widely on foreign policy, small states in international relations and power

politics, including recent articles in e.g., International Affairs, Ethics and International

Affairs, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of Transatlantic Studies,

International Studies Review, Global Affairs and European Security. His most recent

books are Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford

University Press, forthcoming 2021, co-edited with T.V. Paul, Deborah W. Larson,

Harold Trinkunas and Ralf Emmers), Handbook on the Politics of Small States

(Edward Elgar, 2020, co-edited with Godfrey Baldacchino) and International

Institutions and Power Politics: Bridging the Divide (Georgetown University Press,

2019, co-edited with T.V. Paul).

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THE NORDICS: REGIONAL SECURITY AND OUTLOOKS ON

GLOBAL AND ASIAN AFFAIRS

Stina Torjesen

Stina Torjesen holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford

and is an Associate Professor at the School of Business and Law, University of Agder.

She served previously as a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of

International Affairs (Nupi) and is a current member of the Norwegian Labour Party’s

International Committee.

Anita Pratap

Anita Pratap is an international writer and journalist, the former South Asia Bureau

Chief of CNN and Time Magazine. She is now based in Oslo, Norway, but has lived and

worked in Europe, United States, India, Saudi Arabia and Japan, covering breaking

news stories ranging from reporting from the 22,000 feet high Siachen Glacier, the

world’s highest battleground between India and Pakistan, the wars in Afghanistan and

Sri Lanka, tsunami, cyclones and the rise and fall of governments. Her book ‘’Island of

Blood’’ on the war in Sri Lanka was published by Penguin. She has won several Indian

and International awards, including the prestigious American George Polk award for

her coverage of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

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SWEDEN'S FEMINIST FOREIGN POLICY

Jonatan Klum Stelander

Jonatan Klum Stelander is a Swedish diplomat, serving as Second Secretary at the

Political Section at the Embassy of Sweden in New Delhi. He covers domestic politics

in India, including issues related to democracy and gender equality. He also covers

foreign, domestic and trade policy concerning Sri Lanka and Maldives, countries

which are side accredited to the Embassy in New Delhi. Before being posted in New

Delhi he worked at the Department for European Security Policy at the Swedish

Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has previously worked at the Ministry's America

Department and interned at the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC. He holds a

master's degree in Political Science from Uppsala University.

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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN NORWAY

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen is Professor of work life research at Department of

Working-Life and Innovation, School Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway.

He has a background in economics and political science. He has published extensively

with the field of innovation and work life research. His latest edited book is Coping

with the Future: Rethinking Assumptions for Society, Business and Work, London,

Routledge, 2018.

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NORDIC WELFARE MODEL, AND ESPECIALLY FOCUS ON

WORK-LIFE BALANCE POLICY

Caroline de la Porte

Caroline de la Porte is Professor MSO at the Department of International

Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining

CBS, Caroline was Associate Professor at Roskilde University (2013-2015) and at the

University of Southern Denmark (2007-2013). She holds a Research Master and a PhD

from the European University Institute in Italy, and an MSc and BSc from Université

Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Caroline’s research focuses on comparative welfare

state reform, the Nordic welfare model, and the Europeanisation of welfare states. She

is a leading scholar on EU governance and public policy. Recent publications include

“The work-life balance directive: Towards a gender equalizing EU regulatory welfare

state? Denmark and Poland compared”, Annals of the American Academy of Political

and Social Science, 691 (1), with Trine Larsen and Dorota Szelewa and " Lessons about

the ‘Harder’ elements of OMC governance for the EU energy Union, Journal of

Environmental Policy & Planning, 22(6), with Sabina Stiller. She is actively involved

in externally funded projects and boards of international academic associations. She

is WP leader on ‘Fair Working Conditions’ for the EU Horizon programme

‘EUSocialcit’ (https://www.eusocialcit.eu/), coordinated by the University of

Amsterdam (2019-2024). Caroline is also principal investigator for CBS in the

Nordforsk-financed research excellence network “Reimagining Norden in an Evolving

World” (ReNEW). Caroline has wide experience in teaching at all levels, uses blended

learning in teaching and has contributed to the development of several Master

programmes. Caroline supervises in a wide range of topics related to European Union

politics, policy and law, as well as comparative public policy, in particular labour

market and social policy, but also other issues, such as education policy and climate

change.

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NORDIC ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP?

Rasmus Karlsson

Rasmsus Karlsson is an Associate Professor and Distinguished University Teacher

(“excellent lärare”) at the Department of Political Science at Umea University. He

teaches and manages a range of courses including the introductory course to political

theory. In his research, he mostly works on long-term global sustainability issues from

an ecomodernist perspective. His articles have been published in leading international

journals such as Environmental Politics, Climate Policy and Citizenship Studies. Prior

to joining the Department of Political Science in Umeå, he was an Assistant Professor

at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, Republic of Korea, where

he was responsible for an MA programme in sustainable development for three years.

He has also worked at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, as a Marie Curie Research

Fellow and in Hong Kong as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Education

University of Hong Kong.

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FINNISH WELFARE SOCIETY AND INNOVATION SYSTEM

Mikko Poutanen

Dr. Mikko Poutanen is a postdoctoral researcher in projects funded by the Kone

Foundation and the Academy of Finland at Tampere University relating to higher

education policy. Before returning to write his PhD in political science at the

University of Tampere, Poutanen worked 2006–2012 at the Nokia Corporation.

Poutanen specializes in political communication (qualitative analysis) and political

economy, currently in the context of higher education. Poutanen has acted as the

editor-in-chief of Politiikasta since January 2019

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ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF NORDIC

WELFARE STATE

Liisa Häikiö

Liisa Häikiö is a Professor in Social Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tampere

University, Finland. She is interested on how people and communities participate and

have influence on society, and specialized on relations between citizen participation,

everyday life and urban governance in various policy fields. At the moment she leads

several research projects with focus on sustainable transformations in society, for

example ORSI - consortium studies how to transform welfare states into ecowelfare

states, more information about which can be found on

www.ecowelfare.fi and www.societalsustainability.fi.

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SWEDEN AND MIGRATION: PROSPECTS AND LIMITS

Khalid Khayati

Khalid Khayati is a political scientist and has fulfilled his PhD project at the Institute

for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University.

Currently, he works as senior university lecturer at the Department of management

and Engineering (IEI)/, division of Political Science, Linköping University, Sweden.

His research is mainly centered on diaspora, transnational relations, and the theory of

transborder citizenship where different migrant and refugee groups (specifically

Kurds) in Western Europe and especially those in France and Sweden constitute the

principal empirical illustration of his research. Khayati received a DEA (Diplôme

d’études approfondies) in political science on Arab & Islam World, at Institut

d’Études Politiques, Aix-en- Provence, France in 1998.

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HEALTH POLICY IN FINLAND

Meri Koivusalo

Meri Koivusalo is a Professor of Global Health and Development (MD, PhD, MSc) at

Tampere University, Finland. Meri has expertise in global and transnational health

and social policy, trade and global governance for health. She is "globally" interested

in global health issues, but she has a particular interest in the relationship between

economic globalization, trade and health, health systems and politics and practice of

global health policy-making. Meri has a background in public health medicine with a

PhD in environmental health and MSc from London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine. She has co-authored and edited academic and textbooks in the area of global

health as well as worked with Finnish government, European Commission, WHO-

Geneva, UNRISD and a number of international nongovernmental organizations.

Meri is currently member of the WHO expert panel on science and technology.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO NORWAY'S PUBLIC HEALTH

SYSTEM

Jon Ivar Elstad

Jon Ivar Elstad is a Researcher and Professor Emeritus, NOVA, Centre for Welfare and

Labour Research, Oslo Metropolitan University. He is a highly-cited sociologist who

mainly works with quantitative statistical methods.

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CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE NORDICS

Haldor Byrkjeflot

Haldor Byrkjeflot is a professor at the Department of Sociology and

Human Geography at University of Oslo. His research interests include

the emergence and circulations of societal and organizational models,

organization theory, bureaucracy as well as historical-comparative

studies. He has managed many large research projects and has been

managing director of a large-scale strategic priority area related to

research on the Nordic model at University of Oslo. He has published

articles on Nordic models, comparative management, the globalization of

the MBA, changing knowledge regimes, comparative labor systems, the

role of bureaucracy in modern societies and reforms and organizational

dynamics in health and education.

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TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN FINLAND

Marja Kristiina Lerkkanen

Dr. Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen currently works as a professor at the Department of

Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, as well as professor II at the

University of Stavanger, Norway. Lerkkanen does research in Educational Psychology,

Reading, Motivation, Primary Education, and Pre-school Education. Their previous

project was the 'CARE project' which continues currently as 'Quality Matters'. Her

current projects are 'First Steps study', 'Teacher Stress Study' (TESSI), and 'Two

Teacher in classroom'.

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WORKING LIFE GENDER EQUALITY

Marjut Jyrkinen

Marjut Jyrkinen is Associate Professor in Working Life Equality and Gender Studies

(tenure track) at the University of Helsinki (UH). She is the Co-founder and Co-

director of the PhD Programme Gender, Culture and Society at the

UH (http://helsinki.fi/sky). She is also the Docent in Administration and

Organisation Studies, Department of Political and Economic Studies at the Faculty of

Social Sciences (UH). She is also the Consortium Director, Strategic Research Council

funded Project Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life

(WeAll) http://weallfinland.fi. Her major interests in research are in critical studies

on gender in management and organisations, and thereby (organisational) ethics and

also human rights more broadly. Her research is multidisciplinary and aims to have a

high societal impact.

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THE NORDIC MODEL: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Sunniva Engh

Sunniva Engh is Associate Professor of History, affiliated with the interdisciplinary

strategic research area UiO:Nordic. Engh holds a DPhil in Modern History from the

University of Oxford (2006), with the dissertation 'Population Control in the 20th

Century: Scandinavian Aid to the Indian Family Planning Programme'. She also holds

an MPhil in Economic and Social History (2000), University of Oxford. Engh was a

postdoctoral fellow with the project 'Den norske fredstradisjonen' at the Forum for

contemporary history, IAKH, University of Oslo from 2006. She was Fulbright

Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Relations at the City

University of New York. From 2012, Engh has been a senior fellow at the Norwegian

Institute for Defence Studies (IFS). At IFS, she worked at the Centre for Asian Security

Studies with the Projects 'Myanmar in Indian security policy' and 'China in Indian

strategic thinking'. Her research interests include Norwegian and Nordic foreign

policy and international engagement, the idea of the 'Nordic Model' in international

politics, the international history of aid and development with particular emphasis on

population policy and health, India's foreign and security policy, and Myanmar and

great power relations in Asia.