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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