Bo Stråth has been Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence since 1997. He was Professor of History at Gothenburg University between 1990 and ’96, and has published widely on issues of modernity and democracy in Europe. His most recent book is The Meaning of Europe.

Recent articles

The modern history of the Nordic countries demonstrates that the ‘Nordic model’ is less an essential reality than the projection of an idealised ‘other’ by the rest of Europe. As the EU faces another range of ‘others’ to the south, does the always contested Nordic reality hold lessons for the attempt to release Europe into a new international role and set of relationships?