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Innovating in troublesome times

Samuelsson, Victor LU (2025) FKVK02 20251
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 significantly changed the Swedish security environment and prompted Sweden to apply for membership in NATO. The military budget has since doubled, and procurement of military equipment has increased by three times. Thereby Sweden had begun its most extensive military build-up since the 1950s and its policy of non-alignment that had persisted for over 200 years was assertively broken. In 2023, with the backdrop of a more antagonising security environment, the Swedish Department of Defence published a report entailing that Sweden needs to further its efforts to innovate militarily. However, NATO, new military technology and changing security environment was not unfamiliar to Sweden and had seen... (More)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 significantly changed the Swedish security environment and prompted Sweden to apply for membership in NATO. The military budget has since doubled, and procurement of military equipment has increased by three times. Thereby Sweden had begun its most extensive military build-up since the 1950s and its policy of non-alignment that had persisted for over 200 years was assertively broken. In 2023, with the backdrop of a more antagonising security environment, the Swedish Department of Defence published a report entailing that Sweden needs to further its efforts to innovate militarily. However, NATO, new military technology and changing security environment was not unfamiliar to Sweden and had seen developments since the end of the Cold War. This paper examines if changes to the security environment has driven Swedish military innovation since the end of the Cold War. Using the concept of security environment adhering from the structural realist theoretical framework to assert that a change has occurred to the security environment, its effect will be measured using the concept of military innovation and its three constituting components: doctrine, organisation and technology. By adopting process tracing in a single-case study the paper seeks to examine the causal relationship between security environment and military innovation. The paper finds that there is a correlation between them and that changes to the security environment was a driving factor that led to two cases of military innovation. (Less)
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Samuelsson, Victor LU
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FKVK02 20251
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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English
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9191276
date added to LUP
2025-08-08 11:24:59
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2025-08-08 11:24:59
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  abstract     = {{The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 significantly changed the Swedish security environment and prompted Sweden to apply for membership in NATO. The military budget has since doubled, and procurement of military equipment has increased by three times. Thereby Sweden had begun its most extensive military build-up since the 1950s and its policy of non-alignment that had persisted for over 200 years was assertively broken. In 2023, with the backdrop of a more antagonising security environment, the Swedish Department of Defence published a report entailing that Sweden needs to further its efforts to innovate militarily. However, NATO, new military technology and changing security environment was not unfamiliar to Sweden and had seen developments since the end of the Cold War. This paper examines if changes to the security environment has driven Swedish military innovation since the end of the Cold War. Using the concept of security environment adhering from the structural realist theoretical framework to assert that a change has occurred to the security environment, its effect will be measured using the concept of military innovation and its three constituting components: doctrine, organisation and technology. By adopting process tracing in a single-case study the paper seeks to examine the causal relationship between security environment and military innovation. The paper finds that there is a correlation between them and that changes to the security environment was a driving factor that led to two cases of military innovation.}},
  author       = {{Samuelsson, Victor}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Innovating in troublesome times}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}