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Responsibilising Total Defence: Interrogating Resistance, Resilience, and Agency in Finland, Sweden, and Lithuania
Volume 10, Issue 2 (2024), pp. 26–51
George Spencer Terry ORCID icon link to view author George Spencer Terry details  

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https://doi.org/10.57767/jobs_2024_012
Pub. online: 30 December 2024      Type: Research Article      Open accessOpen Access

Received
26 September 2024
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11 November 2024
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30 December 2024

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Abstract: Russia’s war against Ukraine has reignited discussions on resistance and total defence, influencing policy discourses and shaping national security documents. Nordic and Baltic countries, in response, have re-centred resistance in their national defence doctrines. This article critically examines the portrayal of total defence, resistance, and the role of society in these documents, highlighting the implicit assumptions of societal and individual agency. Despite presenting national populations as constructive agents essential for resilience and resistance, the analysis reveals a more nuanced reality. From Finland, to Sweden, to Lithuania, populations are positioned, whether through planning documents or political rhetoric, as indispensable defenders of their nations, with predetermined roles and expectations. This article argues that such dynamics, particularly the responsibilisation of individual actions in wartime, obscure the illiberal foundations of sovereignty inherent in the defence strategies of numerous liberal democracies.

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Resistance resilience responsibilisation total defence sovereignty

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