Islands in the sun
(2022) STVU15 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- What was it that prompted a security policy-differentiated action between Sweden and Denmark as a counter action to the Russian power built up with landing ships in the Baltic Sea region mid-January 2022? This study will try to provide answers to this. We look at it as a comparative case study with two of Keren Yarhi-Milo´s theories from the book The Behavior thesis: Knowing the adversary from 2014. The first theory - Military Capability, the Russian built-up of military force in the Baltic Sea region at this time should be perceived and met with a similar countermeasure by Sweden and Denmark. The second theory - the Selective Attention theory, this focuses primarily on how a decision-maker´s personally perceived impressions and built-up... (More)
- What was it that prompted a security policy-differentiated action between Sweden and Denmark as a counter action to the Russian power built up with landing ships in the Baltic Sea region mid-January 2022? This study will try to provide answers to this. We look at it as a comparative case study with two of Keren Yarhi-Milo´s theories from the book The Behavior thesis: Knowing the adversary from 2014. The first theory - Military Capability, the Russian built-up of military force in the Baltic Sea region at this time should be perceived and met with a similar countermeasure by Sweden and Denmark. The second theory - the Selective Attention theory, this focuses primarily on how a decision-maker´s personally perceived impressions and built-up expectations of each other that form the basis for perceiving an opponent´s ambitions, likewise here the Russian built-up of military force should be perceived and met by a similar countermeasure by Sweden and Denmark. The fact that Sweden and Denmark made different decisions there and then is a fact. The explanation for Sweden´s actions was according to the expected outcome. The explanation for Denmark´s actions was somewhat more difficult to forecast and leans more on a reasoning behind the theories. (Less)
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- author
- Fredriksson, Peter LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVU15 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Gotland, Bornholm, Baltic Sea, Russia, security policy
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9078994
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-13 10:58:19
- date last changed
- 2022-05-13 10:58:19
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