No More Neutrality: NATO and the Twilight of Swedish Exceptionalism

NATO membership signifies expedience at the expense of a self-aggrandizing national myth that has become increasingly difficult to sustain. The chaotic membership process for Sweden has been illustrative of the prevailing global trends of collective action challenges that have come to define our new era of Global Enduring Disorder. It is an era where great nations with long histories of value-driven foreign policies have recently abandoned them for short-term transactionalism. It is also an era where allies feud about peripheral issues preventing positive-sum collaboration…

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Karl Karim Zakhour

Karl Karim Zakhour is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He has researched, lived in and covered the Middle East and North Africa region for many years, as well as worked on development related-issues in India, Nepal and Taiwan. His research focus includes; Democratization, State, Citizenship and Authoritarian resilience. He teaches courses on Democracy, Development and International Politics. His recent PhD was entitled 'While We Wait: Democratization, State and Citizenship among Young Men in Tunisia's Interior Regions.

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