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A demilitarization process under challenge? The example of Sweden

During the past decades, the process of militarization that characterized Sweden after the Second World War has been replaced by a process of demilitarization. With the debates following the war in Georgia 2008 and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, this process of demilitarization appears un...

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Published in:	Defence studies 2015-07, Vol.15 (3), p.235-253
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