ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the concepts of demilitarization, security and militarization. It discusses the overall theoretical and principled questions of an assessment of the demilitarization and neutralization of the Aland Islands. The book looks at the legal frameworks of the contingent solutions pertaining to the Aland Islands and shows that the rules are considered still valid and relevant even though many of the circumstances surrounding them have been challenged and reconfirmed over time. It deals with regional and sub-regional forms of security co-operation, that the evolving concept of security has been discussed and grey zones and fusions between peace and war and between civil and military spheres described. The book argues that the demilitarized and neutralized status of the Aland Islands rests upon multipolarity and does not rely simply upon strong international institutions, or on Cold War bipolarity, or on global hegemony.
