När EU togs till folkhemsförsvaret - Översättningen av europeiska normer till Försvarsmakten
(2007)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The Swedish Armed Forces have gone through a remarkable change. From being
an organisation built on the notion of countering a Soviet invasion it has evolved
to focusing on small, multilateral rapid reaction capabilities to be used within the
framework of the European security and defence policy, ESDP.
This thesis regards the change as a process of Europeanisation. Drawing from
sociological and historical institutionalism, it is shown that the Swedish Armed
Forces in the post-cold war context was path dependent and unwilling to redefine
its historical raison d?être. The origin of the ESDP Europeanised the national
defence policy, whereas the bureaucracy was still unwilling to translate the new
structural norms. By 2003, however,... (More) - The Swedish Armed Forces have gone through a remarkable change. From being
an organisation built on the notion of countering a Soviet invasion it has evolved
to focusing on small, multilateral rapid reaction capabilities to be used within the
framework of the European security and defence policy, ESDP.
This thesis regards the change as a process of Europeanisation. Drawing from
sociological and historical institutionalism, it is shown that the Swedish Armed
Forces in the post-cold war context was path dependent and unwilling to redefine
its historical raison d?être. The origin of the ESDP Europeanised the national
defence policy, whereas the bureaucracy was still unwilling to translate the new
structural norms. By 2003, however, the EU went operational and the Swedish
military leadership began to translate the now formalized European norms in what
is regarded as a critical juncture.
The main findings are that a need to reform the organisation and the search for
a new raison d?être are the driving forces behind the Europeanisation, and that the
change to a large extent can be assigned to agency, that is, the military leadership. (Less)
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- author
- Holzapfel, Jens
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Försvarspolitik, Försvarsmakten, ESFP, europeisering, normer, Artèmis, Nordic Battlegroup, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1323010
- date added to LUP
- 2007-06-12 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2007-06-12 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The Swedish Armed Forces have gone through a remarkable change. From being
an organisation built on the notion of countering a Soviet invasion it has evolved
to focusing on small, multilateral rapid reaction capabilities to be used within the
framework of the European security and defence policy, ESDP.
This thesis regards the change as a process of Europeanisation. Drawing from
sociological and historical institutionalism, it is shown that the Swedish Armed
Forces in the post-cold war context was path dependent and unwilling to redefine
its historical raison d?être. The origin of the ESDP Europeanised the national
defence policy, whereas the bureaucracy was still unwilling to translate the new
structural norms. By 2003, however, the EU went operational and the Swedish
military leadership began to translate the now formalized European norms in what
is regarded as a critical juncture.
The main findings are that a need to reform the organisation and the search for
a new raison d?être are the driving forces behind the Europeanisation, and that the
change to a large extent can be assigned to agency, that is, the military leadership.}},
author = {{Holzapfel, Jens}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{När EU togs till folkhemsförsvaret - Översättningen av europeiska normer till Försvarsmakten}},
year = {{2007}},
}