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- Title
Strategisk teoris bidrag till förståelse av svensk säkerhetsoch försvarspolitik.
- Authors
Axelsson, Jörgen; Sörenson, Karl; Ångström, Jan
- Abstract
What is the added value of strategic theory in the understanding of Swedish security and defence policies? By introducing a series of concepts that identify policies that are pursued in both peace and war such as escalation, deterrence, and weapons acquisition, we argue that strategic concepts contribute to the analysis of Swedish security policy mainly by highlighting forms of policy that do not conceptually rest upon the dichotomy of war and peace. Differently from mainstream scholarly analysis that treats deterrence as one, uniform concept, we differentiate between four different logics of deterrence. Using this conceptual tool, we analyse Swedish policies in the 1950s and 2010s and discover that although Sweden pursued deterrence during both this periods, her policies depend on a different logic. By comparison, 1950s Sweden understood to pursue deterrence understood as a wall, while 2010s Sweden understands the term in terms of a shield.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; NATIONAL security; POLICY sciences -- Social aspects; SWEDISH politics &; government
- Publication
Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, 2016, Vol 118, Issue 4, p445
- ISSN
0039-0747
- Publication type
Article