Rapport
Publisert:
From territorial defence to comprehensive security? European integration and the changing Norwegian and Swedish security identities
Sammendrag:
This paper analyses the relationship between the European integration process and the recent changes in the Norwegian and the Swedish national security identities. The aim of the paper is to compare developments in the Norwegian and the Swedish security identities in the 1990s and to evaluate the extent and scope of Europeanisation in the two cases. The fact that both Norway and Sweden had very traditional security discourses at the beginning of the 1990s and that it is possible to detect shifts away from this traditionalism in parallel with the development towards a European security dimension should prove that a Europeanisation has indeed occurred. While several researchers have studied the influence of the EU on national institutions and policies, less attention has been given to the Europeanisation of national security identities. This paper is therefore an attempt to fill this gap. The fact that Sweden has become a member of the EU while Norway has not also makes these two countries good cases for examining the extent and scope of their respective Europeanisation.
- Published year: 2002
- Full version: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2394572
- Publisher: NUPI
- Page count: 49
- Language: Engelsk
- Booklet: 626
Skrevet av
Pernille Rieker
Forsker I