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- Title
Keeping Boundaries - Local Self-Government, Territorial Integrity, Cultural Peculiarity, and Protection of Minorities: A Partially Common Nordic Perspective to the Aland Islands, 1938-1945.
- Authors
Besier, Gerhard
- Abstract
The dispute regarding the planned fortifications to be built as a safeguard for the Aland Islands against potential intervention from the major powers between 1938 and 1945 clearly demonstrates the inherent flimsiness of the intended collective defence of Nordic neutrality. Ultimately, only Finland continued to be exposed to pressure from the USSR. Certainly, the inhabitants of the Aland Islands wanted to preserve their autonomy, but no efforts were made to actually ensure this protection. To this day, the issue remains unresolved under international law as to how small neutral countries can evade the imposition of »protection« from major powers. Nevertheless, the Aland Islands remain one of the few examples of where the intervention of the League of Nations met with a moderate level of success.
- Subjects
ALAND (Finland); SOVIET Union foreign relations; FINNISH history; MILITARY history; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 2, p407
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2017.30.2.407