The Roots of Swedish Neutrality
Author: Krister Wahlbäck
Publisher: [Stockholm] : the Swedish Institute
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 88
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Author: Krister Wahlbäck
Publisher: [Stockholm] : the Swedish Institute
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christine Agius
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 1784990027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of the Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’ has signalled a shift in the security policies of all states. It has also led to the reconsideration of the policy of neutrality, and what being neutral means in the present age. This book examines the conceptualisation of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to today, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in International Relations (IR) theory and politics. By rethinking neutrality through constructivism, this book argues that neutrality is intrinsically linked to identity. Using Sweden as a case study, it links identity, sovereignty, internationalism and solidarity to the debates about Swedish neutrality today and how neutrality has been central to Swedish identity and its worldview. It also examines the challenges to Swedish neutrality and neutrality broadly, in terms of European integration, globalisation, the decline of the state and sovereignty, and new threats to security, such as international terrorism, arguing that the norms and values of neutrality can be reworked to contribute to a more cosmopolitan international order.
Author: Erica Sames Lindberg
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Malmborg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-10-02
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1403900922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe successful maintenance of peace since 1814 made neutrality a widely popular doctrine in Sweden. Rather than a security policy in the strict sense, it has become a cornerstone of Swedish national identity. Yet, in the past decade the neutrality tradition has been called into question. What is meant by neutrality? Has Sweden ever been neutral? This book analyses the emergence, institutionalisation and reassessment of neutrality, of the notion of peace as a national good, from the sixteenth century to the present debate on NATO membership.
Author: Bengt A Sundelius
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1000315541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a collection of essays by Swedish and American academics begins by putting into its historical perspective the classic definition of Swedish foreign policy as freedom from alliance in peace, aiming for neutrality in war and it helps to gain new insights on the Sweden's foreign policy.
Author: Ryszard M. Czarny
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3319775138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the legal and political factors determining international relations, including the processes of integration in all their complexity. The overall structure of the book, together with the composition of its separate chapters, allows for some general assumptions, identifying the main tendencies and placing them in a contemporary social context as well as establishing their relations with the practices of today. The content is a compendium of basic information and data related to the international processes which occur within specific formal, legal and political frames. The book is divided into five parts featuring not only deep historical context but most of all presenting current information and analyses of the last few years. Presented against the background and within the context of the Kingdom of Sweden’s political system and its international environment, the book brings into the foreground issues of particular importance for Sweden’s continuing European integration process and describes its response to the developments in the international situation.
Author: Christine Teresa Anne Agius
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 299
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lars Gyllenhaal
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780977756315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"From the mud and bloody hell of Flanders to forlorn battles in Siberia and bitter street fighting to the very heart of Berlin 1945. From Africa to the Arctic, fighting men from a country frowned upon for its 'cowardly' neutrality participated in all the crucial battles of World War I and II. Their homeland was Sweden, which has enjoyed almost two hundred years of peace ... despite Sweden's policy of neutrality, no fewer than 23,000 Swedish citizens went to war between 1914 and 1945 ... [this book] also puts an end to the myth that most Swedes enlisted in Hitler's forces. Only 200 joined the Waffen-SS or the Wehrmacht of 1939-1945. In the same period, 9,000 Swedish citizens joined the Americans, the British, the Norwegians, and the Poles. In addition, well over 200,000 men of Swedish descent served in US, British, Canadian, and Australian Armed Forces"--Page 4 of cover
Author: Sverker Åström
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Aunesluoma
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003-05-13
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0230596258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuhana Aunesluoma considers the ways in which Scandinavia's, in particular neutral Sweden's, relationship was forged with the Western powers after the Second World War. He argues that during the early cold war Britain had a special role in Scandinavia and in the ways in which Western oriented neutrality became a part of the international system. New evidence is presented on British, American and Swedish foreign and defence policies regarding neutrality in the cold war.