Göteborgs universitet Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen Der ewige Russische The Swedish military and its schizophrenic struggle for an identity Kandidatuppsats i Statsvetenskap VT 2013 Författare: Göran Nilsson Handledare: Ulf Bjereld Antal ord: 11 716 Abstract This study is about how the Swedish military handles their identity in regards to a post-Cold War world both in the formal and informal sense. In the study we ask how the two identities of the Swedish military are constructed are and if they are compatible. We also discuss what consequences may come from the two identities. As analytical tool we used Critical Discourse Analysis combined with a framework by Lene Hansen combined with Cold War and post- Cold War security logics. We find that there is two incompatible identities struggling in the eye of the public and that there can be problematic consequences from this struggle between identities. Keywords: Swedish military, Lene Hansen, Speech act, Post-Cold War Security logic, Cold War security logic, Critical Discourse Analysis, Securitization, Political Science This thesis is dedicated in loving memory of Hugo Chavez That died during the writing of this thesis Thanks to Ulf Bjereld for his supervising and good advise Thanks to Denny Pencheva for her insightful comments while writing this thesis Without you all, nothing of this could have been done, Thank you! Comments, typos found, money, love notes, hate mail, death threats, letter bombs, anthrax to:
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