The Internationalisation of the Swedish Armed Forces

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In this bachelors thesis I focus on the current change in the Swedish Armed Forces. The new international security context makes the Armed Forces´ old strategies inaccurate. New threats are replacing the old ones. Sweden no longer have a need for a grand defence against an invasion and the military has therefore changed towards an internationalised organisation, which is more and more integrated with other countries militaries. To understand the ongoing change I am using theories from Mary Kaldor, Pertti Joenniemi and Christopher Coker who are approaching the subject in different ways. It is important to use different approaches to understand such an advanced reformation process. I am discussing what effects the end of the Cold War and an increasing integration in the European Union has on the ...