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Will a Nordic Alliance Prevail in Nato?: Exploring a future Nordic alliance in Nato through the alliance security dilemma

Lundell, Franka LU (2024) STVK04 20241
Department of Political Science
Abstract
With an accelerating climate crisis, Russia as an aggressive military force, a changing American presence in the international community, and the move of Sweden and Finland to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), the geopolitics of the Arctic bear increasingly larger implications for global geopolitical trends. The Nordic states have large interests in how the Arctic region develops, and has in the last decade increased cooperation to strengthen common defense capabilities. Building on this, the study explores if the Nordics will build a strong regional entity in Nato on security issues of their neighborhood – a Nordic alliance on Arctic security issues – after Sweden and Finland’s entries. To conduct this exploratory... (More)
With an accelerating climate crisis, Russia as an aggressive military force, a changing American presence in the international community, and the move of Sweden and Finland to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), the geopolitics of the Arctic bear increasingly larger implications for global geopolitical trends. The Nordic states have large interests in how the Arctic region develops, and has in the last decade increased cooperation to strengthen common defense capabilities. Building on this, the study explores if the Nordics will build a strong regional entity in Nato on security issues of their neighborhood – a Nordic alliance on Arctic security issues – after Sweden and Finland’s entries. To conduct this exploratory research, the Alliance security dilemma (ASD), an intra-alliance theory, is used to execute a mixed-method approach consisting of a theory consuming qualitative case study and descriptive statistics. By answering hypotheses created around ASD’s determinants of choice, this study finds that relative dependence, strategic interest, common interest in the adversary, and behavioral record, are likely to steer the choice to form a Nordic alliance. The one determinant of less importance is explicitness of agreement. The question of whether a Nordic alliance will be established remains unanswered. (Less)
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author
Lundell, Franka LU
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organization
course
STVK04 20241
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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keywords
Nordic Alliance, Alliance Security Dilemma, Sweden in Nato, Finland in Nato, Intra-Alliance Management
language
English
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9153134
date added to LUP
2024-07-18 11:18:22
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2024-07-18 11:18:22
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  abstract     = {{With an accelerating climate crisis, Russia as an aggressive military force, a changing American presence in the international community, and the move of Sweden and Finland to enter the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), the geopolitics of the Arctic bear increasingly larger implications for global geopolitical trends. The Nordic states have large interests in how the Arctic region develops, and has in the last decade increased cooperation to strengthen common defense capabilities. Building on this, the study explores if the Nordics will build a strong regional entity in Nato on security issues of their neighborhood – a Nordic alliance on Arctic security issues – after Sweden and Finland’s entries. To conduct this exploratory research, the Alliance security dilemma (ASD), an intra-alliance theory, is used to execute a mixed-method approach consisting of a theory consuming qualitative case study and descriptive statistics. By answering hypotheses created around ASD’s determinants of choice, this study finds that relative dependence, strategic interest, common interest in the adversary, and behavioral record, are likely to steer the choice to form a Nordic alliance. The one determinant of less importance is explicitness of agreement. The question of whether a Nordic alliance will be established remains unanswered.}},
  author       = {{Lundell, Franka}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Will a Nordic Alliance Prevail in Nato?: Exploring a future Nordic alliance in Nato through the alliance security dilemma}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}