SECURITISATION OF #SWEDISH MILITARY #CONSCRIPTION ON TWITTER
Journal: UTUPub (University of Turku)
Year: 2020

On March 02 2017, the Swedish government announced that it is bringing mandatory military services back into practice due to the shortage of military personnel and to meet country’ security needs. The practice had been abandoned in 2010 after being in place for well over a century. The announcement was a hot topic locally and internationally in the context of changing security situation in the Baltics. Political actors took to social media to deliberate with general public and to control the pub