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Sveriges NATO-medlemskap - En analys av svenska identitetens förhållningssätt

Thorell, Herman LU and Åkesson, Einar LU (2025) STVA23 20242
Department of Political Science
Abstract
In the wake of Russia’s escalation of the invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Swedish politics seemed to suddenly change stance in regards to its participation in the military alliance Nato. Polls on the matter were seemingly flipped on their head. This paper aims to investigate how this came to pass through a constructivist lens about how a country with such deep historical, and cultural roots in being peaceful and free from alliances does a U-turn on their percieved attitude just a few years before. In order to study the topic this paper will employ a narrative analysis on a total of eight news- and debate articles that were published over a period of four years, both before and after 2022. The study concludes that Sweden has for the last... (More)
In the wake of Russia’s escalation of the invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Swedish politics seemed to suddenly change stance in regards to its participation in the military alliance Nato. Polls on the matter were seemingly flipped on their head. This paper aims to investigate how this came to pass through a constructivist lens about how a country with such deep historical, and cultural roots in being peaceful and free from alliances does a U-turn on their percieved attitude just a few years before. In order to study the topic this paper will employ a narrative analysis on a total of eight news- and debate articles that were published over a period of four years, both before and after 2022. The study concludes that Sweden has for the last decades displayed and acted upon its personal identity as a moral superpower, but at the same time had a rather contrasting collective identity militarily which had been suppressed in public discourse. That being until the invasion of Ukraine acted as a catalyzer upon which this identity took the subjective priority in Sweden's interests. (Less)
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author
Thorell, Herman LU and Åkesson, Einar LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA23 20242
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
identitet, Sverige, NATO, konstruktivism, narrativ
language
Swedish
id
9179761
date added to LUP
2025-03-04 10:48:17
date last changed
2025-03-04 10:48:17
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  abstract     = {{In the wake of Russia’s escalation of the invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Swedish politics seemed to suddenly change stance in regards to its participation in the military alliance Nato. Polls on the matter were seemingly flipped on their head. This paper aims to investigate how this came to pass through a constructivist lens about how a country with such deep historical, and cultural roots in being peaceful and free from alliances does a U-turn on their percieved attitude just a few years before. In order to study the topic this paper will employ a narrative analysis on a total of eight news- and debate articles that were published over a period of four years, both before and after 2022. The study concludes that Sweden has for the last decades displayed and acted upon its personal identity as a moral superpower, but at the same time had a rather contrasting collective identity militarily which had been suppressed in public discourse. That being until the invasion of Ukraine acted as a catalyzer upon which this identity took the subjective priority in Sweden's interests.}},
  author       = {{Thorell, Herman and Åkesson, Einar}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Sveriges NATO-medlemskap - En analys av svenska identitetens förhållningssätt}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}