The modern Norwegian historiography of Norwegian foreign policy has been updated with several new publications reflecting its official concept. These are N. Orvik's essay "Main Directions in Norwegian Foreign Policy", published in 1961-1962 jointly by the K. Michelsen Research Institute of Social and Political Sciences in Bergen and the semi-official Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute in Oslo, and E. Leken's book "Norway in European and Atlantic Cooperation", published in 1964 by the University press Oslo, K. Freudenlund's book "Norwegian Foreign Policy in Post-war International Cooperation", published by the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute in 1966, and, finally, B. Bestrup's essay "Norwegian Foreign Policy" published in 1968 by the Press Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs .1These names are not coincidentally placed in the same row. All these authors are well-known not only in Norway, but also in other Scandinavian countries as staunch supporters of the current pro-NATO foreign policy. Orvik, who received his Ph. D. in 1950 from the University of Wisconsin (USA), collaborates in the Military History Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Defense and the Norwegian Foreign Policy Institute, and is also one of the leading theorists of the Norwegian Workers ' Party (ILP). Leken, a well-known lawyer, is a former head of the Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in recent years has been the secretary of the Norwegian delegation to the Nordic Council. Freudenlund, former assistant to one of the creators of the pro-NATO course in Norway, former Foreign Minister X. Lange, elected in 1969 as a Storting deputy from the ILP. Finally, Bestrup , a well - known foreign policy columnist who is closely associated with conservative political circles and with Norwegian shipowners, the leading arm of the country's monopoly capital, is one of the most reactionary journalists in the newspaper world of Northern Europe. Thus, the views and mo ... Read more