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Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. Ilja Viktorov, researcher at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University. RE

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Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut

The following paper traces the emergence of a Swedish military-industrial complex through its heydays to its eventual decline,  to identify factors which distinguish the Swedish case. The paper argues

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