Security ontology and development-oriented of the Nordic trends in Swedish foreign policy

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Faculty of law and Political sicnece, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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The Nordic region is geographically encompassed by the Scandinavian environment and the Nordic region. From the perspective of welfare and development, the Nordic region includes Northern European countries including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. The notion of Nordic (being from the north) placed security-development concepts and structures on the internal and external policymaking of the countries within the region. The present study examines the role of the being Nordic in Swedish foreign policy with an emphasis on identifying and understanding this region. The main hypothesis of the present paper is that the Nordic-North security environmental perception by the Swedish elite has created certain features and trends in Swedish foreign policy that have changed the orientation and practices of Swedish foreign policy in the new era, especially in recent years. Given Sweden's leadership role in the region, the country has sought to extend these features to other governments in the region as well and creating a new security environment based on the Nordic tendency in Swedish foreign policy and other countries in the Nordic region. Extensive emphasis on the neutrality of the Nordic region, internationalization, development, and emphasis on the Nordic cooperation rather than mere cooperation with the European Union, peaceful-military security-building coalition within the European environment and the centrality of regional development are among the trends that show Swedish new foreign policy orientation based on emphasis on the Nordic region in the new era.

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