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perceived as a gradual dilution of the ‘moral significance’ of national boundaries, orthe claims that individuals of one state can make against all states.These post-Cold War shifts in internationalism, marked less by laissez-faire, than by amuscular interventionism, have signalled the onset of a crisis in classical liberalinternationalism. The distinctive Nordic internationalism of the Cold War periodhas begun to diminish and diverge in the company of more numerous, moreaggressive, Western internationalisms. 104 Academic discussion and the policy ofinternationalism after the Cold War has been animated by debates on interventionistforeign policies conducted by the US and Britain. 105 These policies have, in turn,formed part of political cosmopolitan debates about the proper boundaries ofethical action, and the boundaries of the state’s responsibility. Internationalism hasalso been associated with terms such as ‘progressive foreign policy’ and ‘ethicalforeign policy’. The present work maintains the link of this literature with the state’sprominent role in internationalism, and its preoccupation with if and how the statecan realise, nationally and internationally, concepts of the global good (for themoment taken as given). This trend is noted in recent work on the internationalistforeign policies of the Nordic countries, analysing the domestic demands for thisforeign policy stance, and to what uses it has been put. 106 This research isnecessarily comparative and brings into focus the close relationship betweendomestic politics and foreign policy. Bergman has developed an apparently strongcontention linking domestic levels of welfare provision with internationalcommitments to welfare in the Nordic countries. 107 This approach focuses onadvanced industrialised economies and cannot account for the ways in whichdeveloping countries fashion their accounts of internationalism. Little has beenwritten on the internationalism of the developing world, the ideas that gave rise tosolidarity, and how they are implemented; 108 yet, third world internationalism104 Peter Lawler, “Janus-Faced Solidarity: Danish Internationalism Reconsidered”,Cooperation and Conflict, 42, Issue 1 (2007).105 Lawler, “Janus-Faced Solidarity”,102. See also Tony Blair’s speech in Chicago, 1999on ‘The Doctrine of the International Community’, accessed online athttp://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page1297.asp, on 12 January 2008.106 See Peter Lawler, “The Good State: in praise of ‘classical’ internationalism”, Reviewof International Studies, 31 (2005) and Bergman, “The Concept of Solidarity”.107 Bergman, “The Concept of Solidarity”.108 For an exception and race-based account, see Darryl C. Thomas, The Theory andPractice of Third World Solidarity (Westport: Praeger, 2001).64