Neutrality and Identity: the Social Origins of Swedish Neutrality
Author: Christine Teresa Anne Agius
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 299
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Author: Christine Teresa Anne Agius
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 299
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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: 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: Christine Agius
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2012-06-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719071539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the end of the Cold War, and particularly in the post-9/11 international environment, neutrality has been conceptualized as a problematic subject. With the end of bipolarity, neutrality as a foreign and security policy lost much of its justification, and in the ongoing "War on Terror", no state, according to the Bush Administration, can be neutral. However, much of this debate has gone unnoticed in IR literature. This book, newly available in paperback, examines the conceptualization of neutrality from the Peloponnesian War to the present day, uncovering how neutrality has been a neglected and misunderstood subject in 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 world-view.
Author: Krister Wahlbäck
Publisher: [Stockholm] : the Swedish Institute
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 88
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Pierre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199665672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook provides a broad introduction to Swedish politics, and how Sweden's political system and policies have evolved over the past few decades.
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: Sverker Åström
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 456
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