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"Värt att försvara, värt att bevara” - En diskursanalys av Försvarsmaktens styr- och policydokument

Adling Tufvesson, Amalia LU and Wikström, Ellen LU (2022) STVA22 20221
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Already in 1979 the alarming trends of climate change were addressed at the first World Climate Conference (Rippel et al. 2020, s. 8). Now 40 years later, Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency (Ibid). Depending on one’s definition of security, climate change can be seen as one of the biggest security threats of our time. Although several climate change agreements, like the Paris agreement and the goals of Agenda 2030, have been made, climate change proceeds in the wrong direction. To examine the security threat of climate change, this paper examines how the Swedish armed forces portrays security in relation to the environment. By applying Carol Bacchi’s analytical framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” onto the armed... (More)
Already in 1979 the alarming trends of climate change were addressed at the first World Climate Conference (Rippel et al. 2020, s. 8). Now 40 years later, Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency (Ibid). Depending on one’s definition of security, climate change can be seen as one of the biggest security threats of our time. Although several climate change agreements, like the Paris agreement and the goals of Agenda 2030, have been made, climate change proceeds in the wrong direction. To examine the security threat of climate change, this paper examines how the Swedish armed forces portrays security in relation to the environment. By applying Carol Bacchi’s analytical framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” onto the armed force’s policy document, we clarify how they portray environmental security by drawing upon theory from Realism and Green Security. The findings indicate that the discourse of environmental security can primarily be connected to a realistic view of security, since it displays the state and the authority as the reference object for security. On the other hand, discourse of GST was found to a certain extent. However these were formulated in a simplistic view of environmental security. (Less)
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author
Adling Tufvesson, Amalia LU and Wikström, Ellen LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA22 20221
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Försvarsmakten, Säkerhet, Realism, Hållbarhet, Green Security Theory, Miljö
language
Swedish
id
9079823
date added to LUP
2022-07-02 16:01:11
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2022-07-02 16:01:14
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  abstract     = {{Already in 1979 the alarming trends of climate change were addressed at the first World Climate Conference (Rippel et al. 2020, s. 8). Now 40 years later, Planet Earth is facing a climate emergency (Ibid). Depending on one’s definition of security, climate change can be seen as one of the biggest security threats of our time. Although several climate change agreements, like the Paris agreement and the goals of Agenda 2030, have been made, climate change proceeds in the wrong direction. To examine the security threat of climate change, this paper examines how the Swedish armed forces portrays security in relation to the environment. By applying Carol Bacchi’s analytical framework “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” onto the armed force’s policy document, we clarify how they portray environmental security by drawing upon theory from Realism and Green Security. The findings indicate that the discourse of environmental security can primarily be connected to a realistic view of security, since it displays the state and the authority as the reference object for security. On the other hand, discourse of GST was found to a certain extent. However these were formulated in a simplistic view of environmental security.}},
  author       = {{Adling Tufvesson, Amalia and Wikström, Ellen}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"Värt att försvara, värt att bevara” - En diskursanalys av Försvarsmaktens styr- och policydokument}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}