“It is very much part of the Social Democrat identity — it gave us a special space of manoeuvre in international politics in terms of mediation, peace talks and arms control. That’s the main explanation of why we’re acting so slowly now,” says Anna Wieslander, director for northern Europe at the Atlantic Council.
Further reading
Thu, Mar 3, 2022
Will Finland and Sweden join NATO now?
New Atlanticist By Anna Wieslander, Christopher Skaluba
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shifted the political dynamics in the two militarily non-aligned Nordic states. Here's how a fast-track NATO process could look.
Thu, May 5, 2022
Wieslander quoted in Financial Times on NATO application security dilemmas
In the News By Anna Wieslander
The period between a NATO application and Article 5 security guarantees poses several security dilemmas for Sweden and Finland. “By various informal steps and declarations in this period by major allies and working with NATO, I think we’ll get through this period,” she told the Financial Times.
Sat, Apr 30, 2022
Wieslander quoted by Washington Post on the expected Finnish NATO application
In the News By Anna Wieslander
With Finland expected to join NATO, the High-North and Baltic Sea region “will all be one military-strategic arena now, especially if you look from the Russian side,” said Anna Wieslander, director for Northern Europe at the Atlantic Council. “Putin miscalculated,” she said. “This is not what he foresaw.”