När EU togs till folkhemsförsvaret - Översättningen av europeiska normer till Försvarsmakten
FörsvarsmaktenFörsvarspolitikESFPEuropeiseringNormerArtèmisNordic BattlegroupPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapLaw and Political Science
The Swedish Armed Forces have gone through a remarkable change. From beingan organisation built on the notion of countering a Soviet invasion it has evolvedto focusing on small, multilateral rapid reaction capabilities to be used within theframework of the European security and defence policy, ESDP.This thesis regards the change as a process of Europeanisation. Drawing fromsociological and historical institutionalism, it is shown that the Swedish ArmedForces in the post-cold war context was path dependent and unwilling to redefineits historical raison d?être. The origin of the ESDP Europeanised the nationaldefence policy, whereas the bureaucracy was still unwilling to translate the newstructural norms. By 2003, however, the EU went operational and the Swedishmilitary leadership began to translate the now formalized European norms in whatis regarded as a critical juncture.The main findings are that a need to reform the organisation and the search fora new raison d?être are the driving forces behind the Europeanisation, and that thechange to a large extent can be assigned to agency, that is, the military leadership.