ABSTRACT
The main political actors in the devolutionary process leading to the creation of the autonomous Aland Islands were conditioned by the historical and security environment in which the Aland Islands find themselves. The Aland Islands are geographically near Stockholm, the Swedish capital. The 1856 Convention on the Demilitarisation of the Aland Islands was annexed to the 1856 Peace Treaty of Paris after the Crimean War. Early on after Finnish independence, the autonomy solution concerning the Aland Islands introduced an asymmetrical feature in the constitutional structure of the country, due to the internationalization of the issue of the Aland Islands. Already during the first two decades of the implementation of the autonomy legislation, the Aland Islanders became aware of an unintentional resymmetrisation that depended on changing circumstances after the independence of Finland and on the fact that as an independent state, Finland was obliged to enter into treaties on different matters with other states.
