2023-05-16

200 Years of Peace by Berghahn Books - Ebook | Scribd

200 Years of Peace by Berghahn Books - Ebook | Scribd

200 Years of Peace: New Perspectives on Modern Swedish Foreign Policy
By 
Berghahn Books


About this ebook

Since 1814 Sweden has avoided involvement in armed conflicts and carried out policies of non-alignment in peacetime and neutrality during war. Even though the Swedish government often describes Sweden as a ‘nation of peace’, in 2004 the 200-year anniversary of that peace passed by with barely any attention. Despite its extraordinary longevity, research about the Swedish experience of enduring peace is underdeveloped. 200 Years of Peace places this long period of peace in broader academic and public discussions surrounding claimed Swedish exceptionality as it is represented in the nation’s social policies, expansive welfare state, eugenics, gender equality programs, and peace.




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Contents 
 
Introduction. Pax Suecia, 1814–2020 
Nevra Biltekin, Leos Müller and Magnus Petersson 
 
Chapter 1. ‘Long Peace’, Neutrality and Sweden-Norway’s Foreign Policy, 
1794–1856 
Leos Müller 
 
Chapter 2. How Small States Manage to Stay Out of Wars: Explaining 
Sweden’s 200 Years of Peace 
Jacob Westberg 
 
Chapter 3. Swedish Peace Movements and the Breakup of the Forced 
Union between Sweden and Norway in 1905 
Fredrik Egefur 
 
Chapter 4. The Swedish Lotta Movement and Its Neighbours: Navigating 
Neutrality, Peace Building and Women’s Issues in the Twentieth Century 
Anne Hedén 
 
Chapter 5. The Quest for Neutrality: Sweden, Finland and the Language 
Question in a Cold War Context 
Janne Väistö 
 
Chapter 6. No Peace without Equality: The ‘North-South Conflict’ and Its 
Effects on Sweden, the Netherlands and West Germany 
Christopher Seiberlich 
 
Conclusion 
Nevra Biltekin, Leos Müller and Magnus Petersson

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