Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction Boom, Bust and Recovery
• The Crash
• The blame game
• The Pots and Pans revolution
• Recovery and new critical order
• Outline and analysis
• Part I  Rise and Shine
• 1  Birth of a Nation A Postcolonical Project
• The independence struggle
• The colonial heritage
• The national myth
• Equal partner
• The Vikings
• Ever lasting struggle
• Conclusion
• 2  Coming of Age Economic History
• Early fragile finanicalization
• Party of four
• Rich in fish
• Emergence of a historic block
• ITQ and neoliberal modernization
• Conclusion
• 3  The Independent State Foreign Relations
• Three pillars
• Outside in Europe
• Challenges
• Compensating for smallness
• Icelands sense of sovereignty
• The discourses on Europe
• Conclusion
• Part II  Boom and Bust
• 4  The Nordic Tiger Imagined Economic Miracle
• Privatization and deregulation
• Rival groups of Viking Capitalists
• Leveraged expansion abroad
• Procyclical policies
• Spinning out of control
• Mother of all shopping sprees
• Nourishing the superiority complex
• Conclusion
• 5  Living on the Edge Hot Air Flaring Up the Economy
• The 2006 Geyser crisis
• New funding model
• Love letters and self-inflation
• Gathering clouds (early 2008)
• Falling off the waterfall
• The Glitnir takedown
• Conclusion
• 6  The Crash Collapse of the Cross-border Banks
• Domino effect
• The fatal weekend
• Implementing the master plan
• God bless Iceland
• The UK attack
• Financial devastation
• Ruined reputation
• Conclusion
• Part III  Revolution and Recovery
• 7  The Pots and Pans Revolution and Defiance Abroad
• Taking to the streets
• Adding insult to injury: the Icesave dispute and the IMF
• God Damn, Fucking Fuck
• In-com-pe-tent go-vern-ment: an all-Iceland revolution
• Left-leaning landslide
• The Icesave dispute heightens
• Post-crisis discourse
• Conclusion
• 8  Rising from the Ruins A Fragile Economic Recovery
• The IMF emergency programme
• Bank restructuring
• Welfare-orientated recovery
• Production base intact
• Debt restructuring
• Rising from the ruins
• Challenges ahead
• Conclusion
• 9  Reconstituting Iceland and the New Critical Order
• Political accountability
• Criminal investigation
• Re-entering international society
• Challenging the party system
• Constitutional reform
• Conclusion
• Conclusions and Final Remarks
• Notes
• References
• Index