Sökning: "small state security"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 78 uppsatser innehållade orden small state security.
1. Constructing Capabilities : Military Strategies of Small States in an Age of Transition: Examining the Influence of Strategic Culture
Master-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : Scholars tend to approach small states’ military strategies in terms of restraints and opportunities in the external security environment, largely overlooking the influences of a state’s domestic particularities. This thesis aims to explore how the theory of strategic culture, regarded here as an inherent, domestic context in which strategy is formulated, can add nuance to such realist analyses of how small states build and adjust their defence capabilities. LÄS MER
2. Estlands säkerhetspolitik i egenskap av småstat : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av Estlands nationella säkerhetskoncept 2023
Kandidat-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : This study seeks to understand Estonia as a small state acting on the international arena in 2023. By analysing the National Security Concept of Estonia by applying Baldur Thorhallsson’s shelter theory, this study identifies Estonia’s shelter-seeking tendencies based on three areas of small state weakness: military, economic and societal. LÄS MER
3. Island of the Roses : A case study of the ontological threat of a micronation
Kandidat-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : The discipline of OSS’s (Ontological Security Studies) incorporation in Security Studies has helped unravel state behaviour which other IR-theories (International Relations) have struggled to make sense of. Going beyond the physical security concerns which characterise the traditional literature, OSS has up until recently consistently emphasised the psychological threat of harm to the “self” – emanating from a point of departure which renders it disembodied. LÄS MER
4. The swing of the pendulum: Sweden's pivot to NATO : A case of small states' shift in security policy
Kandidat-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : Sweden is the only state in the Baltic Sea region currently not under NATO protection, which puts the state in a particularly vulnerable position. On 18 May 2022, Sweden officially deemed NATO alignment a more effective option of security strategy in projecting deterrence and dealing with the security challenges the state is facing, compared to a strategy of non-alignment which has been Sweden’s security posture for over 200 years. LÄS MER
5. NATO VÅR NYA VÄN En beskrivande studie om Sveriges socialisering med Nato under den postneutrala-eran
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : In this study the theory of state socialisation is used to describe how norms of international poles defuse to small states, which are trying to adopt their foreign policy, in an attempt becoming members of the pole. The pole has the most influence over the small state in the position, as an almost member. LÄS MER
