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  • Örnéus, Anna
    Swedish Defence University.
    No peace to keep, only civilians to protect: Reconciling politics & protection within UN Peacekeeping Operations through international law2023Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
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  • Weissmann, Mikael
    Swedish Defence University, Department of War Studies, Land Operations Division.
    Guide till praktisk examination av praktiska moment: Konstruktiv länkning i praktiken i utbildningen av kadetter och officerare2024Report (Other academic)
    Abstract [sv]

    Denna guide presenterar en modell som integrerar lärandemål med praktiska läraktiviteter och praktisk examination i utbildningen av kadetter och officerare inom ramen för högskoleutbildning. Syftet är att visa hur man kan uppnå konstruktiv länkning i praktiken vid examination av praktiska moment i utbildningen av kadetter och officerare, utan att äventyra de krav på rättssäkerhet som högskoleexamination ställer, samtidigt som utbildningsmål, pedagogiska aktiviteter och utvärderingsmetoder sammankopplas. Därigenom kan praktisk examination av praktiska moment skräddarsys för de militära yrkenas dynamiska och praktiska karaktär.

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  • Malmén, Klara
    Swedish Defence University.
    Abortfrågan i USA post-Roe: Säkerhet för vem och mot vad?2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [sv]

    This study aims to analyze the policy discourse held by interest groups in the United States following the repeal of Roe, the constitutional right to abortion, from a security perspective. Additionally, it seeks to examine what these organizations believe needs protection and against what, and the potential consequences for womenś health security in the USA. The study employs a security feminist and post-structuralist theoretical and methodological approach based on Bacchi’s (2023) problematization framework “What’s the problem represented to be?” (WPR) and Baldwin’s (1997) Security Concept to analyze how these interest groups perceive the abortion issue post-Roe and what this produces and reproduces. The analyst reveals a distinct and polarized view on the abortion issue regarding what should be protected and against what. These divergent perspectives influence how threats are perceived and what measures are advocated for. The study’s analysis also demonstrates that the politicized debate and the various problematizations may have adverse consequences for women’s health security, such as increased risks of unsafe abortions and lack of access to safe abortion care. Furthermore, the state-centric understanding of health policy may contribute to reproducing the stigma surrounding abortion and excluding women’s individual needs. This underscores the importance of questioning the prevailing health policy and its impact on women and other vulnerable groups, and raising the question: security for whom and for what? 

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  • Lasén, Sebastian
    Swedish Defence University.
    För Fädernesland, eller för Konung? En undersökning av motiven hos adliga officerare som anslöt sig till 1772-års Revolution2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The purpose of this study is to determine what motivated the noble officers of the Swedish military to participate in Gustav III:s 1772 Revolution. This investigation will be utilizing material written by participating noble officers between 1771 - 1773, originating from Gustavianska or Sprengtportenska samlingen, or from the biographies of Johan Christopher Toll and Jakob Magnus Sprengtporten. In order to fulfill the stated purpose of this investigation, three questions, one primary and two secondary, are formulated and answered in separate chapters. In addition, the investigation will be applying a qualitative text analytical method along with an deductive theoretical approach. This method, thanks to its hermeneutic utility, allows a comprehensive analysis of the motives stated in the material, and how the findings reflect on the military’s societal and political culture. The chosen theoretical framework which is applied deductively in the analysis, is Samuel Finers ‘military intervention’ theory. More specifically concepts from the section that covers military officers' motivations for intervening in politics. The final conclusions made in this investigation is that the officers were primarily motivated to join the coup to pursue the ‘national interest’. The noble officers had a longstanding hatred for the country’s political system, based on the conception that it was unable to adequately protect what they viewed as the nation's interests. The officers, who viewed themselves as the fatherlands protectors, joined the revolt in order to install a political system that they felt could protect the nation's continued existence. The officers were also motivated on the basis of ‘ideology’, as the conspiracy provided a opportunity to enforce Royalist political doctrine. Lastly, a further motive was the pursuit of ‘sectional interests’. The protection of ‘group interests’, in the form of protecting the nobility's political and financial privileges, as well as ‘individual interests’, where financial rewards and promotions were requested in exchange for allegiance, were also present.

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  • Nilsson, Felix
    Swedish Defence University.
    Neutralitetsvakten till sjöss: Marinens effektivitet under neutralitetsvakten mellan åren 1939–19452024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The Navy’s neutrality guard during World War II, despite its proximity to the present, is a subject that is relatively unexplored in modern research. One of the main tasks of the neutrality guard was to preserve Sweden’s neutrality and territorial sovereignty by preventing warring parties from using the country’s territory. A classic book on the subject, written at the initiative of the naval leadership in the 1960s, is the only work that at least partially deals with this aspect of the Navy’s neutrality guard. There, rough quantifications of the information are made, presenting overall figures for some of the years during the period. This aspect is not mentioned at all in the rest of the research. This bachelor thesis thus aims to create an overview and understanding of this aspect of the Navy’s neutrality guard in order to draw conclusions about the Navy’s effectiveness. This is done by basing a discussion on the results of the thesis about the Navy as an organization according to Brooks’ theory of military effectiveness.

    The investigation is carried out by studying the chief of the Navy’s war diary during World War II both quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantification is made from the neutrality violations and measures that occur in the source material. The qualitative part of the work consists of a text analysis of the directives and posts that relate to neutrality violations. The thesis shows a large discrepancy between the previous research and the source material examined. The discrepancy means that more research on the subject is necessary to determine and deepen the research around the Navy’s neutrality guard. The essay finds that the Navy’s effectiveness varied during World War II and that it perhaps reached its peak in the years 1942–1943. Seen as a whole, the Navy’s neutrality guard succeeded in its purpose – to keep Sweden out of the war.

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  • Dahlström, William
    Swedish Defence University.
    Rysslands hybridkrig i Sahel. Gamla metoder, nya aktörer? En komparativ studie om aktiva åtgärder i Mali 2019-2023 och Angola 1974-19762024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Russia's renewed interest and involvement in the African continent is reminiscent of a time when the Soviet Union supported various ideologically aligned groups to win a geopolitical power struggle and assert its position as a global superpower. The motives seem to have changed, but the question is whether Russian warfare in Africa has changed as well. In this comparative study, the Soviet Union's support for the MPLA and their takeover in Angola in 1975 is compared with Russia's support for the military junta that seized power in Mali after a military coup in 2020, aiming to determine how Russian/Soviet warfare in Africa has evolved over time. Supported by Thomas Rid and Lars Ulfving's theoretical framework on so-called active measures, three operationalized variables are identified and analyzed as: white, gray, and black. Through qualitative text analysis, reports and literature from the cases are examined. The results of this study provide a deeper understanding of how hybrid warfare has been and is currently used as a means of Russian influence in Africa. The methods for this have rather been reinforced than changed historically by global development trends, especially the spread of information technology and the utilization of private companies and other actors. This study has confirmed that there is a historically rooted common Russian strategy to acquire and exert influence, a strategy based on the Soviet Union's traditional methods, active measures. A dual strategy consisting of both official policies and unofficial means where the unofficial means are driven by private actors, facilitating Russia's plausible deniability.

     

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  • Rudin, Maja
    Swedish Defence University.
    Trading Democratic Rights for a Sense of Security: A Quantitative Study of Genders’ Effect on Swedes' Willingness to Limit Their Democratic Rights for Security2024Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The stand of liberal democracy as the most desirable form of governance has long been left unquestioned in the West. The rise of geopolitical, and national, security issues force the population in these states to consider the trade off between security and democracy. Research on which demographic factors affect populations’ attitudes towards limiting their democratic rights for the sake of security is scarce. The few studies of the Swedish population's relationship to their democracy that do exist, do not problematize the found relationship between gender and the will to limit democracy in cases of crises. 

    This thesis tests what effects Swedes’ will to limit democracy for the sake of national security against two hypotheses. Right Wing Authoritarianism is used as the explanatory framework as to why women are more positive towards democracy limiting security measures than men. Utilising multiple regression analysis, the findings indicate that women to a larger extent than men are more positive towards democracy limiting security measures when controlling for other demographic factors and time. Therefore, this study concludes that gender-based structures in society affect womens’ relationship with the trade-off between security and democracy.

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  • Palme, Linnéa
    Swedish Defence University.
    Beslutsfattande och maktdistans i Nato2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This qualitative study aims to investigate how NATO employees experience the impact of power distance on decision-making. To answer that question, I have relied on a qualitative method consisting of a hybrid of questionnaires and interviews that were sent out. Six participants from four countries participated. When the results were examined through thematic analysis, five different themes emerged: decision-making, hierarchy, culture, power distance and language. The results indicate that power distance does affect decision-making within NATO to some extent; depending on which country the representatives come from. The indirect power wielded by the member states varies according to their respective geographical size, the size of their population and their annuity as a member of NATO. The study shows that power distance exists and to some extent affects decision-making within the organization. It also shows that the issue is complex, as not all participants are aware of the concept of power distance, although their responses indicate that they are aware of its existence within the organization. In conclusion, power distance is influenced by how long the nation has been a member of the Alliance, how many high-ranking people the nation has in the various offices of the Alliance, and how well these representatives are able to master language skills, to interpret what is said in a spatial and temporal context, and to weight words accurately; here English and negotiation skills are of great importance.    

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  • McCarthy Hartman, Nina
    Swedish Defence University.
    Countering Terrorist Content Online: Removal = Success?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the EU Regulation 2021/7842024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This thesis critically interrogates the underlying assumptions which legitimise the hard regulation of online platforms regarding terrorist content, by turning to the case of the EU Regulation 2021/784. Utilising qualitative critical discourse analysis, the study analyses how the EU's strategy against terrorist content online is discursively legitimised through the lens of Theo van Leeuwen's framework for discursive legitimisation strategies, focusing on moral and rational justifications. The study's empirical contribution demonstrates how the EU's strategy is legitimised primarily through public security, fundamental rights, digital economy and efficiency discourses. It contributes theoretically by highlighting how counter-terrorism measures regarding online spaces function through rationalisation and moralisation strategies which legitimise policies as reasonable and morally justifiable, when in fact they rest upon a series of contested assumptions and narratives about the threat from terrorist content. Furthermore, the study puts forward that the regulation contributes to the institutionalisation of online platforms role in countering terrorist content online and reproduces unequal power relations between large and small hosting service companies, public authorities, and individuals.

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  • Moberg Berlin, Oscar
    Swedish Defence University.
    Attachéer och lärdomar i Vietnamkriget: Undersökning av de svenska attachérapporterna från Washington under Vietnamkriget 1965-1969.2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This study is examining the Swedish military attachés reports from Washington regarding the Vietnam War. The focus is to find out if there are any lessons learned by the US military, and then also if these lessons learned are applicable for the Swedish military according to the rapports of the military attachés. This with the help of Tom Dyson’s theory about the lessons learned process in modern militaries. Where the process is turned into four steps, knowledge acquisition, management, dissemination and finally transformation. These four steps are also influenced by four factors, organizational theory, bureaucratic politics, culture, and neoclassical realism. The method used is qualitative text analysis with a hermeneutic viewpoint, where the focus it to interpret the rapports. The study shows that there are several rapports from the attachés regarding the Vietnam War, where rapports range from political problems in the US to the use of hovercraft on the rivers of Vietnam. The study further shows several instances where the US tactics in Vietnam have changed following the lessons learned theory four steps. The study shows that several of these lessons learned by the US in Vietnam were also interesting for the attachés for their applicability in the Swedish military. Lastly it showed that several of the theories factor might have played a part in how the rapports were presented from the attachés to the Swedish intelligence center.

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  • Sterner Jonsson, Elisa
    Swedish Defence University.
    Kinesiska investeringar, en säkerhetsrisk? Svenska föreställningar kring kinesiska investeringar i teknik och infrastruktur2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    The purpose of this thesis is to contribute a nuanced understanding of Swedish perceptions regarding Chinese investments, particularly in technology and infrastructure. Despite the shift in perceptions from economic opportunities to security risks since 2017, there remains a gap in understanding the multifaceted nature of these perceptions. The research problem revolves around the contradiction between perceiving Chinese investments as security risks and their continued influx into sensitive sectors like technology and infrastructure. This study aims to investigate if there are nuanced perceptions and how they are constructed, aiming to fill this gap in understanding Swedish attitudes towards chinese investments. Employing the concept of "Sociotechnical Imaginaries" developed by Jasanoff and Kim (2009), grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and political theory, the thesis utilizes Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to dissect empirical data. The analysis explores the evolution of Swedish perceptions regarding Chinese investments from 2017 to 2021, examining how national politicians frame these perceptions and whether they are reflected in the execution and development of technical and industrial projects. Through this approach, the study aims to provide insights into the complexity of Swedish attitudes towards Chinese investments, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of why these investments persist despite being perceived as security risks.

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  • Grinnemo, Felix
    Swedish Defence University.
    Den moderna underrättelsetjänstens första krig: Svensk underrättelseinhämtning i Norge och Ryssland i början av första världskriget2024Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    This study is about mapping out Sweden's intelligence gathering from Russia and Norway under the beginning of the first world war, more specifically the years between 1914–1915. This study also deals with the sources that the Swedish intelligence used to gather information and what the use of sources can say about how evolved the Swedish intelligence organization was under the period. The third purpose with the study is to investigate if there are any differences between the intelligence work in Russia and Norway regarding the intelligence gathering and use of sources.  The study will answer the purpose through one main question and three operationalizing questions. The methods used is a qualitative text analysis with focus on skim reading and synchronous comparison. These methods allow me to process a large amount of material which allows me to determine what kind of intelligence that was gathered and which sources were used to gather the information from the countries. These methods also allow me to see the differences in the intelligence gathering and use of sources between the countries. Selected parts of Michael Hermas book Intelligence Power in Peace and War will be used as a theoretical perspective to answer how evolved the Swedish intelligence organization was. The theoretical part used is the Humint pyramid. The pyramid decides how valuable a source is depending on the information the sources possess, how frequently it is used and how sensitive information it is reporting. If an intelligence organization is dependent on sources of a low value, the organization is passive and unevolved, however if the organization frequently uses sources with a high value, the organization is active and evolved. The conclusions are that the Swedish focus areas with its intelligence gathering was troops, logistical conditions, fortifications, the situation and atmospheres in the countries and also the border guard. Regarding how evolved the Swedish intelligence organization, the conclusion was drawn that it was unevolved during 1914 while it developed significantly under 1915.   

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  • Söderstjerna, Frida
    Swedish Defence University.
    The Liberalist Tightrope: Balancing Pluralism and Meaningful Action in International Relations, a study on Judith Shklar’s Liberalism of Fear2024Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear, while characterized by deep skepticism and dissatisfaction with utilitarian theories on liberalism, is also filled with hope and a tireless dedication to the victims of our political worlds. This thesis in international political theory explores Judith Shklar’s underappreciated international political thought. The thesis argues that while her liberalism of fear can be considered a coherent alternative to rivaling theories in international political theory, as it explores questions on ethics beyond the horizons of single political communities, it also presupposes strict limitations regarding the purpose of international political theory. Consequently, the liberalism of fear can be thought of as an international political theory that functions as a sense-making tool rather than being action-guiding. Hence, the aim of this thesis is twofold: It aims to contribute to the secondary literature on Shklar’s political thought in the context of international relations, but it also aims to contribute to the broader discussion on the study of ethics in international relations, especially concerning realist political theory, and in such ways, it illuminates some fundamental complexities in real-world politics. 

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  • Wehrling, Freja
    Swedish Defence University.
    Peace-washing: The pacifization of the Swedish arms export2024Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
    Abstract [en]

    Sweden’s role internationally is often cited as a paradox which is argued to have its origin in the opposition between the state’s international humanitarianism and its large arms export. The tension here has often been examined from the perspectives of militarization in research on the subject. This thesis instead argued that a comprehensive understanding of peace is needed to analyze the paradox holistically. By semiotically engaging with the Swedish Government's annual reports on arms export control, this thesis could identify the construction of peace within the arms export during the years 2014-2021. A usage of the combined perspectives of pacifization, militarization and an in-depth review of the peace concept, allowed for a comprehensive understanding of peace within these discourses. The thesis discovered that elements of the Swedish arms export were framed as (1) a precondition for peace, (2) an agreement of peace, and (3) an enhancement of peace. Moreover, the material revealed the juxtaposition of two different versions of peace, one liberal and one emancipatory understanding. As these versions are associated with different values and practices of peace, their coexistence in Swedish arms export is argued to be the heart of Sweden’s foreign policy paradox. 

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