Sveriges militära alliansfrihet - ett minne blott eller en potentiell nitlott?
(2021) FKVK02 20211Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Social identity theory can be used to analyse group membership, as well as inter and intra relations between the in and out group. In this study, SIT has been used to analyse how a Swedish membership in NATO could affect the Swedish identity. Moreover, SIT has also been combined with fragments from neorealism to better understand how the power balance could change. The study is based on a handful of semi structured elite interviews, with politicians from the Swedish parliament forming the ground for a qualitative content analysis. The study finds that the general perceptions of the effects of a membership is divided, with four out of the eight political parties on each side of the membership question. Although, based of social identity... (More)
- Social identity theory can be used to analyse group membership, as well as inter and intra relations between the in and out group. In this study, SIT has been used to analyse how a Swedish membership in NATO could affect the Swedish identity. Moreover, SIT has also been combined with fragments from neorealism to better understand how the power balance could change. The study is based on a handful of semi structured elite interviews, with politicians from the Swedish parliament forming the ground for a qualitative content analysis. The study finds that the general perceptions of the effects of a membership is divided, with four out of the eight political parties on each side of the membership question. Although, based of social identity theory, the believed changes that are presented in the interviews are not of such a kind that they can be considered to have a notable impact on the Swedish identity. Sweden has for a long time been working closely with both NATO and other joint military forces, and can thus be considered to already be so close and integrated with NATO as an organisation, that a membership would not entail some major consequences. The conclusion that follows is that it is subordinated identities, such as the social democrat identity, that would be affected by a membership, and not the Swedish one. The essay also finds that the two political blocks seem to have different loyalties, where the bourgeois bloc, who has an instrumental loyalty, is more prone to accept transnational identities and organisations than the left block, who has a sentimental loyalty. (Less)
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- author
- Åberg, Vilma LU
- supervisor
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- Erik Noreen LU
- organization
- course
- FKVK02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Identity, neorealism, NATO, Social Identity Theory, Group identity, Swedish membership.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9046723
- date added to LUP
- 2021-07-06 10:58:34
- date last changed
- 2021-07-06 10:58:34
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abstract = {{Social identity theory can be used to analyse group membership, as well as inter and intra relations between the in and out group. In this study, SIT has been used to analyse how a Swedish membership in NATO could affect the Swedish identity. Moreover, SIT has also been combined with fragments from neorealism to better understand how the power balance could change. The study is based on a handful of semi structured elite interviews, with politicians from the Swedish parliament forming the ground for a qualitative content analysis. The study finds that the general perceptions of the effects of a membership is divided, with four out of the eight political parties on each side of the membership question. Although, based of social identity theory, the believed changes that are presented in the interviews are not of such a kind that they can be considered to have a notable impact on the Swedish identity. Sweden has for a long time been working closely with both NATO and other joint military forces, and can thus be considered to already be so close and integrated with NATO as an organisation, that a membership would not entail some major consequences. The conclusion that follows is that it is subordinated identities, such as the social democrat identity, that would be affected by a membership, and not the Swedish one. The essay also finds that the two political blocks seem to have different loyalties, where the bourgeois bloc, who has an instrumental loyalty, is more prone to accept transnational identities and organisations than the left block, who has a sentimental loyalty.}},
author = {{Åberg, Vilma}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sveriges militära alliansfrihet - ett minne blott eller en potentiell nitlott?}},
year = {{2021}},
}