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  1. 1. Reassembling the Environmental Archives of the Cold War : Perspectives from the Russian North

    Författare :Dmitry V. Arzyutov; Peder Roberts; Per Högselius; Julia Lajus; Bathsheba Demuth; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Environmental Archive; Russian Arctic; Encounters; Cold War; Indigenous and Academic Ways of Knowing; Miljöarkiv; ryska Arktis; möten; det kalla kriget; ursprungliga och akademiska kunskapssystem.; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Sammanfattning : To what extent the environmental history of the Arctic can move beyond thedivide between Indigenous peoples and newcomers or vernacular and academicways of knowing? The present dissertation answers this question by developing thenotion of an environmental archive. Such an archive does not have particular referenceto a given place but rather it refers to the complex network that marks the relationsbetween paper documents and human and non-human agencies as they are able towork together and stabilise the conceptualisation of a variety of environmentalobjects. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A Cold War Pursuit : Soviet refugees in Sweden, 1945-54

    Författare :Cecilia Notini Burch; Magnus Petersson; Karl Molin; Ann-Marie Ekengren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; refugee policy; Cold War; security; ethnicity; human rights; social control; Sweden; Soviet Union; Balts; Ingrians; Russians; flyktingpolitik; kalla kriget; säkerhetspolitik; etnicitet; mänskliga rättigheter; social kontroll; Sverige; Sovjetunionen; balter; ingermanländare; ryssar; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : What determines refugee policies in liberal democracies? Humanitarianism? International relations? Economics? Identity issues? International law? Concerns for national security? This book explores these factors through a case study of non-aligned Sweden’s management of Soviet refugees during the first decade of the Cold War. The policy of admission and political asylum; the government’s handling of direct Soviet demands regarding refugees; the Swedish authorities’ surveillance strategies and the continuing living conditions of individuals who were permitted to stay, are all studied in depth. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Vägen till Beirut : Svenska handelsfrämjande åtgärder i Libanon 1920-1975

    Författare :Ahmad Hussein; Magnus Lindmark; Hans Jörgensen; Peter Hedberg; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Economic history; Middle East; the Arab World; mandated power; mandate; superpowers; Cold War; Lebanon; Sweden; trade; trade policy; trade promotion; business establishment; networks; the Uppsala model; the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the General Export Association of Sweden; the Swedish Trade Council; LM Ericsson; Ekonomisk historia; Mellanöstern; Arabvärlden; mandatmakt; mandatland; supermakter; Kalla kriget; Libanon; Sverige; handel; handelspolitik; handelsfrämjande åtgärder; företagsetablering; nätverk; Uppsalamodellen; Sveriges Utrikesdepartement; Sveriges Allmänna Exportförening; Sveriges Exportråd; LM Ericsson; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates Swedish trade promotion in Lebanon from 1920 to 1975. The aim is to increase knowledge about how actors in a small open western economy tried to develop their economic interests in an emerging market characterized by great uncertainty. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Re-presenting the West : NATO’s Security Discourse after the End of the Cold War

    Författare :Andreas Behnke; Jens Bartelson; Iver Neumann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATO; security; discourse; nomos; identity; West; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has re-produced a geopolitical order, or nomos, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. The thesis examines both the ontological as well as the epistemological aspects of these processes. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Nordens Frihet : Samfundet, tidningen, kretsen

    Författare :Tora Byström; Bosse Sundin; Per Wisselgren; Jonas Hansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Association Nordens Frihet; the Magazine Nordens Frihet; circles; network; friendship; the Second World War; the Finnish Winter War; the Finnish Continuation War; political core concepts; Scandinavia; Nordic union; anti-Nazism; anti-Communism; neutrality; democracy; liberal; the Cold War.; Samfundet Nordens Frihet; tidningen Nordens Frihet; krets; nätverk; vänskap; andra världskriget; finska vinterkriget; finska fortsättningskriget; politiska kärnbegrepp; Norden; nordisk union; antinazism; antikommunism; demokrati; liberal; nationell; neutralitet; kalla kriget.; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with "Samfundet Nordens Frihet" ['The Association Scandinavia’s Freedom'], its magazine with the same name, Nordens Frihet, and the circle that constituted the magazine’s editorial committee. Nordens Frihet was founded as a direct consequence of the outbreak of the Finnish Winter War on November 30 1939 and was a very active part of the Swedish Finland Movement. LÄS MER