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It has been a true pleasure to edit this special issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law, which is based on the symposium “Security and the formation and application of international law” in honour of Marie Jacobsson, hosted on 24 January 2024 by the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (scilj) in collaboration with the European Society of International Law and the Swedish Branch of the International Law Association.1

The purpose of the symposium was to explore the interplay between international law, policy and decision-making regarding security. International lawyers assume that international law influences both general policies and concrete decisions by states. But we also acknowledge that law is a by-product, as it were, of concrete political decisions. The intricate dialectic between law and concrete practice, between formation and application, is omnipresent. When states act they may contribute to state practice, subsequent treaty practice or also to opinio juris and must think beyond the case at hand. Conversely, in the more relaxed chambers of codification where lawyers try to make sense of what states do, they will inevitably consider the political and practical implications.

Textbook on public international law

The chapter on the Nordic States—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—begins by outlining key aspects of domestic as well as international history that have had significant impact on the region’s predominantly positive attitude towards international law. Despite certain differences among them—due in part to geopolitical interests—the Nordics have a long-standing tradition of extensive cooperation on important questions of international law, including the nomination of common candidates to positions in core international institutions like the ICJ, the ICC, and the ILC. With the examples of international security law and human rights, the chapter illustrates the active approach of the Nordic States in international law-making when it comes to legal regimes of general importance from a governmental perspective. The chapter then discusses historic and current Nordic trends in international legal scholarship, including Scandinavian legal realism. By way of conclusion, the authors reflect on the notion of ‘a Nordic approach to international law’.