The article strives to explore certain aspects regarding the Svalbard demilitarisation in relation to Norway joining the Atlantic Alliance, which could be of interest in relation to the \u00c5land Islands\u2019 status as demilitarised and neutralised in a situation where Finland would decide to join NATO \u2013 although the Svalbard and the \u00c5land Islands\u2019 legal regimes are sui generis regimes, differing for a number of fundamental reasons, as parts of a two larger regimes that differ historically, of dissimilar construction and disparate in nature.<\/p>\n
Taking a closer look at the state of the Svalbard legal regime around the time when Norway joined the Atlantic Alliance in 1949 leads to the conclusion that there were threats towards it from 1944\u20131947, followed by a reconfirmation of the security provisions in the Svalbard Treaty. Arguably the \u00c5land Islands\u2019 legal regime of today is more robust. Seemingly, the application of \u2018NATO\u2019s\u2019 arts. 4 and 5 have so far not had any ties to Svalbard.<\/p>\n
The leeway for interpretation of treaty provisions is arguably of wider scope in the Svalbard case than in the \u00c5landic one. Any kind of reservation for the Svalbard status at the time of Norway joining the Atlantic Alliance was not considered. The article discusses whether an acknowledgement of the \u00c5land Islands\u2019 status would be feasible in the event of a Finnish NATO membership, and finds that a number of issues are still not explored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"forfattare":[1330],"redaktor":[],"sprak":[1400],"typ":[1403],"class_list":["post-33501","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","hentry","forfattare-gustafsson-asa","sprak-engelska-en","typ-journal-of-autonomy-and-security-studies-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/33501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/33501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"forfattare","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forfattare?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"redaktor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/redaktor?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"sprak","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sprak?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"typ","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peace.ax\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typ?post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}