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Appeasing Norway

With a population of barely 5 million people and positioned in peaceful Scandinavia, Norway does not appear to be an obvious instigator of great power conflicts. The calm in Scandinavia throughout the Cold War was the result of the non-militarised buffer status of Sweden and Finland as they did not join NATO, while the military activity ...

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15.10.2017 01:44:08

Militarisation of the Arctic: (2) The Nordic Countries

... on our map of compiled locations, but they are fundamentally different from their North American and Russian counterparts. Nordic military installations tend to be numerous, true, but much smaller compared to those in Russia, Canada or the USA. Norway: small population, big military Norway, despite being the least populous of the four mainland Nordic countries, has the largest military budget[3]. It boasts military stations and outposts of varying sizes along the entire length of its coastline ...

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01.04.2015 16:18:00

Norway’s mini-NATO initiative in the Arctic

The purpose of this article is to examine Norway’s initiative of creating a Nordic Defense Alliance in the Arctic and the consequences it may have for Russia and Arctic cooperation. Author: Elodie Testa, Research Intern at RIAC, graduate student at MGIMO-University It is a well-established ...

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11.03.2015 17:01:00

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