Anu Koivunen is Professor of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Social Science at Tampere University, Finland, on leave of absence from professorship in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Jari Ojala is Professor of Comparative Business History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is also the Vice Dean at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, responsible for research and innovations.

Janne Holmén is Associate Professor of History of Education at Uppsala University, Sweden, and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University, Sweden.

1. Always in crisis, always a solution? The Nordic model as a political and scholarly concept 2. Three driving forces: structural challenges for Nordic democracies in the 2010s 3. Lost land of bliss: imagined temporalities of the Nordic welfare state 4. More or less equality? facts, debates, and policies related to the Nordic model 5. Liquid neutrality: paradoxes of democracy in Finnish and Swedish NATO discussions? 6. The decline of Nordic social democracy 7. Conservatives at the crossroads: cooperating or resisting extremism and populism? 8. Nordic populists as hegemony challengers 9. Cultural policy and cultural diversity 10. Managing moods: media, politicians, and anxiety over public debate 11. Persistent paradoxes, turbulent times: gender equality policies in the Nordics in the 2010s 12. Adapting the Nordic welfare state model to the challenges of automation 13. Education 4.0. Nordic long-term planning and educational policies in the fourth industrial revolution