The Mind the Gap research team met up for a second project workshop in Copenhagen from 4-5 December 2023 where we welcomed Anders Dramstad to the team. Anders, a talented and trained Norwegian historian, will collaborate with Prof. Rasmus Mariager on the historical inquiries into the gap.

As part of the workshop, Anne Ingemann Johansen presented her review of the existing bridging the gap literature, which was used to facilitate a discussion on how our research project, and our first agenda setting article, provides a unique contribution to this field of research by focusing on the Scandinavian Machtstaat as opposed to the American republic.