Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Sweden and Finland, long-standing militarily neutral and non-aligned states, swiftly applied for NATO membership. How can such a quick shift be understood? The research Catherine Hoeffler and I conducted within a larger project on policy elites’ preferences in European states on the eve of the war in Ukraine (2020-2022) and which was published in Contemporary Security Policy, might provide some answers to this puzzle.
Full blog is available here: https://www.cips-cepi.ca/2024/12/06/crypto-atlanticism-policy-elites-and-neutrality-in-europe/
