A (partial) defense of the Frugal Four Published: 25 May 2020 Background Sweden has recently become known as one of the members of the Frugal Four group in the negotiations concerning the new European long-term budget. These member states are skeptical towards the idea of corona bonds, and, as net contributors to the EU budget, they are open to paying more to the EU but “there are limits”. By Anders Schröder
The Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy Published: 20 September 2019 Analysis In 2015 Sweden announced to adopt a feminist foreign policy, making it the first country in the world to implement this aspect in the work of Swedish foreign affairs. What happened since then? By Johan Frisell
‘Taking an Ethical Stand’: Moral Principles and Colonial Logics in Feminist Foreign Policy Published: 28 August 2019 Analysis A feminist foreign policy is associated with being ethical, principled and visionary, yet a government’s actions based on Western standards and values can easily come across as moral superiority or even racism when it comes to other countries. By Fiona Robinson
How feminist is the Swedish feminist foreign policy? Published: 28 August 2019 Analysis A feminist approach to security is based on understanding and increasing human security, and promoting preventive methods including disarmament and arms control. It cannot be used only when it suits a state’s national interests, and ignored when it doesn’t. By Gabriella Irsten
Refugee policy in Scandinavia: paradigm shift in liberal Sweden? Published: 22 June 2016 The Nordic countries have traditionally been attractive for refugees. Given the large number of refugees that arrived last year, these countries have introduced an increasingly restrictive asylum policy, however. By Tobias Etzold
Europe and Its Refugees Published: 8 September 2015 After Danish Jews fled to their neutral neighbours in 1943 and Sweden agreed to offer temporary refuge to some thirty thousand survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, a country deeply averse to foreigners transformed. So can Europe today. An article of the "Berlin Anthology". By Göran Rosenberg
