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Has Swedish policy changed in terms of organisation (form) and content (substance) as a result of an increasingly consolidated membership? Based on the assumption that Swedish policy is part of multilevel governance at a local, regional, national and European level, the focus is on the interaction between Swedish…
This book is a detailed and fascinating account of how ministers and generals scrapped Sweden s traditional invasion defence and turned it into an active player in international affairs. Episodes include the creation of the first Nordic Battle Group, how strategy challenged the mighty defence industry and the…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Internationella relationer Kalla kriget Politik och statsskick Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
How did Sweden’s secret life-line to the West wither? Early in the Cold War, the inner cabinet authorised covert preparations for wartime military cooperation with the West. Wide-ranging arrangements were made during the 1950s and 1960s. But by the 1970s these preparations were faltering, and by the mid-1980s the…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
In this book, the author traces the origins of the domestic Swedish guided missile development effort, and shows how an effective Swedish air defense presupposed the consent to American hegemony. The hegemonic cooperation was established through a series of crucial decisions made by the Swedish government to tacitly…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Europeiska unionen påverkar svensk politik på många sätt. I denna avhandling kartläggs riksdagens arbete med EU-frågorna under det första decenniet av svenskt EU-medlemskap. Den grundläggande frågan är om EU behandlas som utrikespolitik eller inrikespolitik. Många olika aspekter tas upp i boken, t.ex. EU-nämndens…
Is partnership as an organisational principle a way to overcome the limitations of project-organisation and its focus on short-term outcomes? Or is the interest in partnership organisations only an expression of a trend or a fashion in the growing market for organisational development in complex situations? In this…
Astonishingly, Wittgenstein insisted that he was not an original thinker but one who passionately seized upon the thoughts of truly original thinkers with a view to developing a method of conceptual clarification. He compared his mind to fertile ground in which the seeds of the truly original: Ludwig Boltzmann,…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
When national common services become international service companies, new strategies and structures are needed in order to become competitive. It challenges companies. It challenges how we perceive these businesses. Not the least it challenges the way we assume that government can influence these former ’top-down…
Leadership is in no way an innate capacity, leaders learn how to lead. This involves constructing leadership through reflection. Reflection takes many different forms. One is to practice being a leader, another is to take courses, read books or why not watch films. Most people have seen more films than read books and…
»Jorden är platt« påstås det ibland i vår samtida globaliseringsdebatt. Vad som avses är att industriell verksamhet kan bedrivas var som helst. Det är idag långt ifrån självklart vilken verksamhet, om ens någon, som kommer att bedrivas i Småland, i Mälardalen, i Norrland eller någonstans i Sverige. Kanske är det i…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
In this book, the author analyzes the role that the Nordic-Baltic region has played in US strategy in the 60 years since the end of World War II. How has the US viewed the strategic and political situation in the Nordic and from the end of the Cold War, the Nordic-Baltic region? What role will the region play in future…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
This study addresses the puzzle why Pierre Mendès France as French Prime Minister managed to grant Indochina independence through negotiations, but neglected the same demand from Algeria. In the mid-1950s, France was experiencing not only a political crisis but also a crisis of national identity. The author shows that…