National or International? Contending Discourses on Finnish Conscription

Laitinen, Kari

doi:10.4324/9781315240794-3

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“…Unlike what occurred in Sweden, the role and position of conscription in Finland remained quite stable. Conscription there has traditionally been an institution that has been broadly supported, seldom contested, and linked to national and cultural characteristics (Laitinen and Nokkala 2005;Levi 1996, 139-40;Sirén 2009). However, competing discourses on using and reforming conscription existed, especially in the early 2010s.…”

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“…In short, conscription was not only the way to provide needed resources to defend Finnish territory. It has also been a part of the narratives that were used to build a sense of national identity among Finns (Laitinen and Nokkala 2005). However, modern-day Finland has experienced changing discourses about conscription as well as about its purpose and meaning (Tainio 2015).…”

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Legitimacy of Conscription in Democracy

Kaarkoski¹,

Häkkinen

2023

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Conscription is a political institution that may socialize individuals to acquire such values as a sense of patriotism and duty toward state. In democratic countries, public support for conscription is vital. In this article we study the effects of public opinion on Swedish and Finnish politics from 2008 to 2010 and from 2017 to 2021. Based on an analysis of political language, we argue that the use of such language is central to seeking legitimacy for controversial issues. To that end, political discussions and interpretations of public opinion are central ways of creating and legitimizing policy. By conducting a qualitative, conceptual, and contextual analysis of digitized parliamentary documents in Sweden and Finland, this article suggests that in both countries political elites have spoken about public opinion to support the crafting of defense policy, particularly when speaking about the necessity to reform conscription so as to maintain citizens’ engagement with defense and their acceptance of conscription as a core institution of national defense.

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Legitimacy of Conscription in Democracy

Kaarkoski¹,

Häkkinen

2023

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“…However, there are a number of routes circumventing the challenge. One can contend that the world has not changed -as the Finns seem to do with a considerable degree of success by insisting on the importance for them (independently of how much the rest of the world changes) of a strong, conventional territorial defence (Laitinen 2005).…”

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Enduring Conscription: Vagueness and Värnplikt in Sweden 1

Leander¹

2017

The Changing Face of European Conscription

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“…This joint analysis of political discourse and the military is important, because the military has never been apolitical (Golby et al, 2020), but there has been very little research on the political discourse around compulsory military service. An example of such research is the work of Laitinen (2006), who analysed the controversial discourses on compulsory military service in Finland. Similarly, Tiargan (2016) points out that the Israeli public discourse on the subject of compulsory military service is active for cultural, social and historical reasons, but is under-analysed in research.…”

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The Discourse on the Formation of Permanent Compulsory Initial Military Service in Lithuania

Kazlauskienė

2024

Regional Formation and Development Studies

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In liberal democracies, the aim of the national armed forces is to protect the freedom and security of society as a whole by political and military means, which leads to the rejection of compulsory military service as an obligatory form of self-defence. However, in the context of shifting geopolitical stability, the subject of compulsory military service is growing in importance in the political discourse. The present paper analyses the political discourse on the formation of permanent compulsory initial military service in Lithuania, and places a particular focus on party programmes in elections held between 1992 and 2020. The content spectrum as regards permanent compulsory initial military service represented in the party programmes of Lithuanian political parties between 1992 and 2020 is scarce, and gives a sketchy image of the service. By communicating the risks associated with being limited to professional military service alone, the Conservatives make more frequent attempts than others at creating a political discourse on permanent compulsory initial military service. By contrast, other political parties focus on the circumstances associated with the geopolitical situation.

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National or International? Contending Discourses on Finnish Conscription

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Legitimacy of Conscription in Democracy

Legitimacy of Conscription in Democracy

Enduring Conscription: Vagueness and Värnplikt in Sweden 1

The Discourse on the Formation of Permanent Compulsory Initial Military Service in Lithuania

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