KEX-utredningen - förslag präglade av realism eller liberalism? : En kvantitativ analys av KEX-utredningen utifrån realism och liberalism.

• Main Author: Eliassi, Azad
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) 2016
• Subjects: KEX; liberalism; realism; UN; interdependence; export control of war material; Swedish military and defense policy; Saudi Arabia.
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53525

Swedish arms exports is a controversial topic. Sweden is one of the world's leading arms exporters. In connection to an investigation conducted by the Eko in 2012, which is a program of the Swedish Radio, Sweden's long arms negotiations with Saudi Arabia. This became a big debate, because Sweden isn't supposed to negotiate with non-democratic countries. The Swedish government decided to appoint a committe to study this subject and come up with stricter laws on arms exports. The purpose of this paper is to see which theory that dominates the committe investigation. it turns out that liberalism dominates the investigation, although even in small tensile characterized by realism. Liberalism is the theory which dominates them abandoned the proposals, the view of democracy as the consequences that a more restrictive regulation would entail.