UCBH sem: “The Bermuda Triangle: A tax haven, Scandinavia and the EU in the invention of International Ship Registries in the 1980s”

Language: English

Jesper Lund Jørstian is a PhD student of political history specializing in industrial politics. In his PhD thesis he studies the development of the Danish shipping policy framework from ca. 1980 to 2002, arguing that a transnational perspective on the spread of policy concepts is needed to understand the Danish case.

At the seminar, Jesper will present a paper about the transnational origins of the concept behind international ship registries – one of the landmark shipping policies enacted by European governments in the 1980s. Focusing on the cases of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, the paper investigates how the concept behind these registries was first invented by an offshore shipowner living in Bermuda and then suggested to Norwegian policymakers. From there, it spread to the other Nordic countries, shaping their shipping policy debates in the 1980s and 1990s

Papers are usually distributed one week in advance. If you wish to be on the mailing list, please contact nikolas.glover@ekhist.uu.se. Colleagues at other universities who wish to participate via zoom can contact Nikolas preferably no less than one day in advance.