Threats, risks, and the (re)turn to territorial security policies in Sweden
Year: 2020

This chapter analyses the construction of Swedish security policy with a focus on identified security dangers and the transformation of security and defence issues from the 1990s to the 2010s. Based mainly on governments’ defence bills and parliamentary defence commission reports, the chapter displays how threats and risks to Swedish security have been constructed during this time. Theoretically, the chapter argues that we need to understand security according to different logics to analyse the