CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Sjokvist, Emma Caroline Susanne |
|---|---|
| Title | The Re-Imagined Geopolitics of Swedish Military Conscription |
| Summary | In March 2017, the Swedish Government re-activated a policy of military conscription that had been abandoned only seven years earlier. In its justification for the conscription policy, the Government pointed to a deteriorating geopolitical situation. This thesis examines the geopolitical imaginations embedded in the Swedish conscription debate through a popular geopolitical lens. After an initial review of the literature regarding the role of conscription in European and Swedish state formation, a discourse analysis is employed to online national newspaper coverage of the Government’s policy reversal. This research demonstrates that media reports in the immediate aftermath of the announcement largely reinforced wider geopolitical discourses that justify conscription as a necessity. More specifically, the media discourse combines a renewed twentieth century geopolitical understanding with an appeal to a new ‘cosmopolitan’ set of values. |
| Supervisor | Ashraf, Cameran |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/sjokvist_emma.pdf |
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