Alumni Publication: "Sweden Joins NATO: Walk Towards Instability and Nuclear Paradox" by Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
On 23 March 2024, Global Strat View published NESA Center alum Asanga Abeyagoonasekera's analysis of Sweden joining NATO.
"In the late nineteenth century, Rudolf Kjellén, a Swedish political scientist at the universities in Uppsala and Göteborg, coined the word “Geopolitik.” Geopolitics is a widely used word in the present day. It was used for the first time by Kjellén, who feared Russian expansionism in the Baltic Sea and designed a strategy to counter Russian expansionism, protecting Sweden and Finland. However, Kjellén failed to convince the Swedes to counter Russian expansionism and transferred his work to the German school of geopolitical thinkers, which ended up with two World Wars. A century after the geopolitical thinker Rudolf Kjellén, it is as if we were revisiting his thinking when Sweden joined NATO to counter Russian expansionism in Europe," writes Abeyagoonasekera.
About the Author
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is an International Security and Geopolitics Analyst and Strategic Advisor from Sri Lanka. He is a Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN) at the Millennium Project in Washington, DC. He is the author of the recent book Teardrop Diplomacy (2023) published by Bloomsbury.
About the Publisher
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