Ideas and Norms in Swedish Peace Policy

Björkdahl, Annika

doi:10.1111/spsr.12046

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“…These “focussing events” offer the opportunity for entrepreneurs to get relevant actors involved. Bjorkdahl (2013) exemplifies how Sweden reached for the EU and UN as suitable arenas for the promotion of conflict prevention as their norm would find resonance with the contexts of the regional EU and global UN arena. In the case of the UN, Sweden linked its idea of conflict prevention to the UN doctrine on the R2P.…”

Section: Conditions For Crossboundary Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy entrepreneurship across boundaries: a systematic literature review

Faling¹,

Biesbroek²,

Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen³

et al. 2018

J. Pub. Pol.

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Although policy entrepreneurs are assigned an important role in crossing policy boundaries and addressing complex problems, our understanding of the process is limited. This article systematically reviews 51 studies on conditions, strategies and implications of crossboundary entrepreneurship. Findings show that (1) the literature predominantly mentions issue promotion and coalition-building as crossboundary strategies; (2) vertical boundary-crossing is discussed more frequently than horizontal boundary-crossing; (3) the most reported boundary-crossing function is to expand issue arenas; (4) conditions that enable crossboundary strategies include institutional overlap, issue interpretation, power vacuum, overruling policies and lacking resources; and (5) implications of entrepreneurship include raised opposition, increased competition over leadership, augmented complexity hindering collective action, raised costs and resources, and issues regarding trust, legitimacy and authority. Policy entrepreneurship allows for micro-level insights in the emergence of crossboundary processes. We suggest future research to focus on causal processes between conditions, strategies and implications to better understand their interplay.

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Section: Conditions For Crossboundary Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy entrepreneurship across boundaries: a systematic literature review

Faling¹,

Biesbroek²,

Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen³

et al. 2018

J. Pub. Pol.

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“…Sweden integrated almost its whole peacebuilding activities into the EU and the UN. However, even there it kept its strong engagement for development of international norms, particularly in regard to development of a ‘culture of prevention’ and the ‘responsibility to protect’ (Björkdahl ). Neutrality was replaced in Finland by a combination of military non‐alignment and a strong commitment to the EU's CFSP.…”

Section: Post Cold War Role Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sweden developed a strong focus on conflict prevention. It invested considerable resources in promoting a ‘culture of prevention’ in both the UN and the EU, where it also collaborated with Finland on various initiatives for strengthening the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) (Björkdahl ). Apart from this institutional engagement, however, it was rather seen as a reluctant peacebuilding actor (CSS: Center for Security Studies : 112‐113).…”

Section: Post Cold War Role Conceptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Special Issue: Bound to be peaceful? The changing approach of Western European small states to peace

Goetschel¹

2013

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Despite a changed international political context in the post-Cold War period, Western European small states remain firmly engaged in peace policy. One would be tempted to describe them as "natural born" peacemakers. This article shows a different approach to small states' peace policies. Using a typology from the literature on the role of norms and ideas, it argues that the type of peace engagement followed by small states has changed considerably during recent decades. More precisely, a shift has occurred in their peace policies from normative to cognitive ideas. This may be explained through their closer cooperation with international organisations (such as the EU), loss of significance of traditional role concepts such as neutrality, and the changed content of peace policies. Two consequences result from it: firstly, cognitive ideas are less linked to historically deep-rooted identities and therefore more prone to change; secondly, there fewer comparative advantages accrue to small states in promoting cognitive ideas. Thus, though small states remain very active peacebuilders, they have become less "natural" peacemakers than they used to be.

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“…Thus, for Sweden not to have joined the Libya operation would actually have been a more unusual behavior, 'even though the presence of the air force added a new dimension to this particular mission' (Dahl, 2012, p. 5). Although Sweden's long tradition of participating in UN-mandated operations is well documented in previous research (Dalsjö, 1995;Ångström, 2010;Björkdahl, 2013), there are very few single case studies investigating in depth why Sweden joined a particular operation, taking as their point of departure theories of foreign policy decision-making. By explaining why the Swedish government made the decision to participate in the Libya operation, this article intends to make a contribution to the study of Swedish foreign policy and to the literature on humanitarian intervention decision making.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sweden’s Libya decision: A case of humanitarian intervention

Doeser

2014

Int Polit

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This article investigates why Sweden decided to participate in the enforcement of the no-fly zone over Libya in 2011. The Swedish decision was the result of a combination of factors, including feelings of altruism, the legal basis for the operation, the involvement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the operation, the political power play in the Swedish parliament and Sweden's availability of military resources. The case study relies on a multitude of different sources, such as government reports, speeches and remarks, parliamentary records, media coverage, blog entries, secondary sources, and interviews with high-level civil servants.

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Ideas and Norms in Swedish Peace Policy

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Policy entrepreneurship across boundaries: a systematic literature review

Policy entrepreneurship across boundaries: a systematic literature review

Introduction to Special Issue: Bound to be peaceful? The changing approach of Western European small states to peace

Sweden’s Libya decision: A case of humanitarian intervention

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