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During the past decade northern Europe has started to assume an identity of its own. Categories of East and West have become blurred, challenging as well the idea of what it means to be Nordic.

Post-Cold War Identity Politics maps this process in Scandinavia. Looking at projects designed to help regional development in the Nordic countires, it assesses whether a new way of defining 'Northern-ness' is emerging. The book highlights the existence of co-existing and - to some extent - competing region-building projects in northern Europe. It demonstrates how they are all efforts by existing nations to redefine their role in Europe at a time of change, and points to how they might develop in the future.

Andreas Fickers is Associate Professor of Comparative Media History at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He is specialised in the cultural history of communication technologies. He is co-editor of A European Television History (2008) and Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (2010). Catherine Johnson lectures in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research examines the Western television industries and the impact of industrial shifts on the cultural artefacts they produce. She is the author of Telefantasy (2005) and co-editor of ITV Cultures (2005).