{"id":3308,"date":"2017-11-03T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2017-11-10T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:55:12","slug":"why-is-the-icelandic-conservative-party-against-membership-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2017\/11\/03\/why-is-the-icelandic-conservative-party-against-membership-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Icelandic conservative party against membership of the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">There is still an ongoing debate in Iceland on whether or not the country should join the European Union. In a new book chapter I make an attempt to examine why the Icelandic centre right party, the largest and most influential political party in the country, is against membership of the EU. The chapter is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/10\/Iceland-The-Dominant-Party-in-Thrall-to-Its-Past-Discourse-by-Thorhallsson.pdf\">Iceland: The Dominant Party in Thrall to Its Past Discourse<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/10\/Iceland-The-Dominant-Party-in-Thrall-to-Its-Past-Discourse-by-Thorhallsson.pdf\">.<\/a>\u00a0The chapter examines how the party's firm adherence to its belief in the importance of national sovereignty, its Cold War ideological stance and its closeness to the fisheries and agrarian sectors have shaped its European policy and kept Iceland as an awkward partner in the European integration process.<a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_1521-e1510350702479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3325 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_1521-e1510350702479.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_1521-e1510350702479.jpg 240w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/IMG_1521-e1510350702479-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3326\" src=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41.png 1106w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41-768x1064.png 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-10-at-10.25.41-739x1024.png 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3315\" src=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-2.jpg 393w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-2-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/files\/2017\/11\/19f25da75dcd390112f3df425188aba0-nato-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is still an ongoing debate in Iceland on whether or not the country should join the European Union. In a new book chapter I make an attempt to examine why the Icelandic centre right party, the largest and most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/2017\/11\/03\/why-is-the-icelandic-conservative-party-against-membership-of-the-eu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3329,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/baldurt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}