Scandinavia in a Deglobalized World Order

In today’s article, I will discuss Scandinavia, particularly how it relates to northern Europe and its fractured history and history of great power politics within Scandinavia within a broader European context.

Also, I will be discussing Scandinavian nations, particularly Sweden, in a world where the United States is withdrawing and downsizing from its international security commitments.

This leads nations to start writing their independent foreign policy and becoming concerned about geopolitics again.

However, people’s interest in geopolitics was made irrelevant during the American world order created after World War II, with the Americans losing interest in the world’s policeman nations starting to rebuild their capabilities and understanding of geopolitics and how it relates to living standards and national security.

Geopolitics is starting to become a serious field again, which also requires national security agencies and the military assigned to retrain a generation from scratch regardless of their understanding of the significance of geopolitics.

This is why people such as Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography, and Peter Zilhen, who are both in the discipline of understanding geopolitics, are now becoming increasingly significant in a world order that is becoming deglobalized, and the USA is not bothered.

The United States guaranteeing the protection of international shipping made owning and…