Title: Non-Alignment and Neutrality from a Nordic Perspective
Headings: Non-Alignment and Neutrality from a Nordic Perspective
Non-Alignment and Neutrality from a Nordic Perspective
From Neutrality to Non-aligment
The President and the People as Obstacles to NATO Membership
New Members Joining the ”Old NATO”
The Dispute over Energy is a Dispute About Money
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Content: It seems that Kim Yong-Il and Vladimir Putin are not the only presidents in the world, who are blessed with populations who unconditionally love their leaders! The same Finns who support their president say in one opinion poll after another that they oppose their country’s membership in NATO. This fierce opposition has always increased when NATO, or its principal member the United States, becomes active in its “core business”, in other word, when it goes to war. When NATO launched its air campaign in the war in Kosovo in spring 1999, support for NATO membership in Finland sank dramatically. When the coalition led by the US and its main NATO-ally Great Britain invaded Iraq in spring 2003, NATO supporters were only 13 % of the population. Finns have well learned the lessons taught by post-war presidents J.K. Paasikivi and Urho Kekkonen that the country should always protect itself from being drawn again