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This book takes a comprehensive approach to security in the Nordic-Baltic region, studying how this region is affected by developments in the international system.The advent of the new millennium coincided with the return of the High North to the world stage. A number of factors have contributed to the increased international interest for the northern part of Europe: climate change resulting in ice melting in Greenland and the Arctic, and new resources and shipping routes opening up across the polar basin foremost among them. The world is no longer ""unipolar"" and not yet ""multipol

Vi belyser det nordiske forsvarssamarbejde fra fem forskellige vinkler med bidrag fra Ann-Sofie Dahl om Østersøen.

Argues that national security policy, and particularly the non-alignment policy, should be reappraised to address Sweden's future relationship with NATO as it changes and evolves. With some reference to Swedish participation in the peacekeeping operation in Bosnia.

This book is about security challenges in the Baltic Sea region caused by Russia's resurgence. NATO and neutral states in the region are now concerned about an external threat for the first time since the demise of the Soviet Union. Russia has been probing air space, maritime boundaries, and even land borders from the Baltic republics to Sweden; the example of Russia's undermining of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea worries former Soviet republics with Russian minority populations; neutral Sweden and Finland may consider joining NATO; and the Trump presidency has created some doubt about America's willingness to follow through on NATO's collective defense commitment. This volume brings together an international group of contributors to examine Baltic security issues on a state-by-state basis and to contemplate what is needed to deter Russia in the region