Nordic council: Fundamentals of socialist developmental regionalism based on perception and global positive image making

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Arash BeidollahKhani ¹ (Faculty of law and Political Science Tehran university)
Yaser Kahrazeh ² (Department of Political Science, University of Azad Zahedan)

Received: 2018-06-25 Accepted : 2019-05-11 Published : 2018-10-23

Keywords: development, Council, Image, Nordic, Scandinavian,

Abstract :

The Nordic Council is a regional inter-parliamentary organization between the countries of Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Today, this region is the centerpiece of the aspirations of development elites. The name and image of each Scandinavian country carry cognitive, visual and perceptual processes which have developmental concepts. The Scandinavian countries, through the Nordic Council, have proclaimed universal social development as their strategic goal. Today, the image of each country, such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, is tied to the high levels of social, political, cultural development and so on. Based on this, the development is the central point of the positive image of the Scandinavian countries in the world. The fundamental question of this study is, what is the most important factors which make the Nordic countries as good countries with the global positive image around the world? Based on this question, after recognition of this council, the hypothesis of the present research, emphasizes that the Nordic Council has been able to give a positive image of each member countries of this council through five pillars and points based on the foundations of sustainable and community-based development and these factors can send the positive image and good perception of Nordic countries around the world.

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