NATO Membership: Changing Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Preference in Sweden and Finland during the RussiaUkraine War
Journal: Digital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature)
Year: 2022

The academic community has not yet reached a consensus on the role of public opinion in shaping foreign policy. To contribute to this theoretical debate, this research investigates how public opinion influenced Sweden and Finland's foreign policy preferences, especially security policy, in response to the increasing security tension following the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war. After Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, both Sweden and Finland witnessed gradually deteriorating relationships w