Due to the widening content of the concept of \u201csecurity\u201d in recent decades, it is no longer possible to talk about security in general terms in a meaningful way. Instead, more specific approaches are needed. This issue of JASS is a very good example: it contains articles that range from a traditionally formulated context of security, to identity, collective security and ontological security. In particular, the context of security through demilitarisation is highlighted in some articles, while in other a more explicit or implicit comparative perspective is taken. \u00c5land, with its international regimes of demilitarisation and neutralisation, is put in perspective in relation to Svalbard as well as to Nagorno-Karabakh. An equally important dimension is the possibility to link security to human rights, or vice versa – something that is developed in an article on North Korea. Finally \u2013 and in between all of this \u2013 stands an article analysing the development of the identity and ontological security of the \u00c5land Islands.<\/p>\n
The Vol. 2\u00a0Issue 2 of JASS includes the following contributions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Aspects Regarding the Svalbard Demilitarisation in Relation to Norway Joining the Atlantic The French Perspective on the \u00c5land Islands: A Cyclic Interest? Between Geopolitics, The Nexus Between Arms Control and Human Righs in the Case of North Korea The Future of \u00c5lands\u2019 Identity Comparing the \u00c5land Islands Precedent and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict What is the Essence of the Institution of Demilitarisation? Reflections upon Completion
\nAlliance in 1949, and Reflections on the \u00c5land Islands\u2019 Demilitarised and Neutralised status in
\nthe Event of a Finnish NATO accession
\n\u00c5sa Gustafsson<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHistoriography, and a Case Study
\nMatthieu Chillaud<\/em><\/p>\n
\nKatja Creutz<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPertti Joenniemi<\/em><\/p>\n
\nKamal Makili-Aliyev<\/em><\/p>\n
\nof the Research Project \u201cDemilitarisation in an increasingly militarised world \u2013 International
\nperspectives in a multilevel framework: the case of the \u00c5land Islands\u201d
\nSia Spiliopoulou \u00c5kermark<\/em><\/p>\n